the Powder of dried Box-leaves and as much of Brimstone and mix it amongst his Provender These are to be used after Labour when he hath Sweat much They Purge the Head and Stomach These two Scourings work upon no Matter but what Nature will excel they purge the Head Stomach and Intrails they kill all kind of VVormes and dry up Phlegm Scourings of a stronger Nature Take of Sallet-Oyl half a Pint of New Milk from the Cow a Pint brew it together and give it him luke-warm or else take a Pint of Muscadine and half a Pint of Sallet-Oyl and give it him to drink or the same quantity of Oyl and sack mixt together and give it him luke-warm Their Vertues These Scourings clense the Head Body and Guts from all Phlegm or Molten Grease which any violent labour hath dissolved they are exceeding good for any manner of Cold or stopping of the Wind-pipes and if you add to them good store of Sugar-Candy it will be the better How to Order a Horse before you give him Physick In Winter if his Body be purged it must be prepared by Blood-letting with Artificial Diet you are to keep him a day or two without Hay Straw or such like hard Meats which will hinder the Working of the Physick and he must be kept for a time from all manner of Meat because Emptiness is a great help to Physical Operation otherwise it may happen to do more hurt then good Two or three days before you purge him let his Meat be either Wheat or Rye-Bran prepared like as has been taught you or else good Bread made on purpose with Beans Pease and some Rye in it Or else good sweet Oats clean Sifted and let his Drink be white Water only And that Morning you intend to give him his Purge let him be Fasting from either Meat or Drink The easiest sort of Pills The easiest Pills are these either take twenty Cloves of Garlick clean pill'd and bruised then a quarter of a pound of sweet Butter and so roul up the Garlick in four or five Balls as big as two Wall-Nuts a piece and throw them down his Throat one after another or else take a quarter of a pound of Butter and as much red Saunders beat them very well together in a Mortar and make them up in Balls and give him them as you did the other or else take a handful of Rosemary-leaves chopped very small and mix them with a quarter of a pound of Butter and make it into round Balls as the other and give them the Horse or else take five green Figs and put them down his Throat The strongest sort of Pill Take one pound of Lard laid in water two houres and take nothing but two Ounces of the clean Fat thereof and stamp it in a Mortar and put thereto of Licorish of Anniseeds and of Fennegreek beaten to powder of each one Ounce of Alloes beaten into powder one Ounce of Agarick half an Ounce knead them altogether into Paste and make three or four Balls of them and give them the Horse This Pill is not to be given but to a Horse of great Stature and strong in Health of Body Purg tâ—ns that are the strongest Câ—rsâ—rs 1. Take Myrrh and mix it with a Pint of white-Wine and it will purge all Sickness that proceedeth of 〈◊〉 the Signs whereof his Belly will swell be very hot neither dang nor break Wind. Or 2. Take a Pint of Wine and beaâ— a raw Egg therein and add to it a quarter of an Ounce of 〈◊〉 and half an Ounce of Myrrh beaten to powder and give it him luke-warm and it will purge all inward Discases proceeding of 〈◊〉 Or 3. Two spoonfuls of the powder of Diaâ—ente given with half a Pint of Swines Grease purgeth all Diseases proceeding of 〈◊〉 Or 4. Take as much black Sope as the bigness of a Wall-nut a quart of new Milk and a quarter of a Pint of Sallet-Oyl and give it him luke-warm and it purgeth all cold Infirmiteis but it will make him exceeding Sick Or 5. Take the Guts of a Tench or Barbel cut into small pieces and give it him in a quart of white-Wine and it will purge him from all Costiveness and pain in the Guts Or 6. Rye being boiled so that it burst not and dried again and given him in stead of Provender purgeth and killeth all manner of Wormes Or 7. Take of Alocs Saccoâ—rina one ounce two drams of Rozin of Jellop Gentian Aristolochia and Elecampane of each a dram mix them well in a quart of Ale and two Ounces of Butter with two Eggs whites and all well beaten shake in the Aloes last when it is a little warm and give it him Or 8. Take of Radish Roots one Ounce of the Root called Panax and Scamony of each half an Ounce beaten altogether and boiled in a quart of Honey and give him two spoonâ—nls of it to drink in a quart of Ale warm and this will purge all gross Humours whatsoever Or 9. Take Elecampane Roots boiled in Milk till they be soft and add them to half a pint of Sallet-Oyl and give it him luke-warm and this will purge and cleanse any kind of Glaunders Or 10. Take of sweet Sope a quarter of a pound made up into Balls and give them the Horse and it will purge all Humours whatsoever both viclently and most abundantly Or 11. Take of white-Wine a pint or for want of that a quart of New Ale so much of the powder 〈◊〉 of the best and choicest as you may take up upon a shilling at four times give it him warm This will purge away his filth and â—lime and carry away his peccant Humours which Sâ—â— feits hath ingendred Or 12. Take an Ounce or better of the best Aloes and after you have beaten it to very fine powder then work it up with a little sweet Butter and then divide it into three parts and cover them all over with clear Butter as big as a small wash-Ball and give them in a Morning Fasting upon the point of a Stick and give him a Horn-full of warm Beer after them and Ride him after them and set him up warm Prob â—um est Or 13. Take of the strongest Ale-wort one quart of ordinary Honey a quarter of a Pint of London-Treaâ—le two Ounces mix and brew altogether well and so give it him Blood-warm and keep him upon the Trench warm Cloathed and well Littered six houres after and let his Drink be white water or a sweet Mash This both purgeth and comforteth put into his Drink either the powder of Brimstone or of Fenegreek or Turmerick or 〈◊〉 one or more together according as he will be brought to like which being well mixed put into his Drink one spoonful at once Or 14. Take of ordinary Honey and mingle it with his Oats which must be mixed by rubbing the Oats and Honey betwixt the Hands let him eat his Oates thus mingled till you finde him quite Cured
Coals and let him receive the smoke of it up his Nostrils through a Tunnel which will bring away abundance of tough Matter into water from the Head and Brain insomuch that it will be almost ready to extinguish the Fire It is a most excellent Comforter of the Brain and brings a great chearfulness to the Heart and rejoyceth the whole Body The Green Ointment The Green Ointment which Cure Sores whether old or green Vleers Fistulaes Poll-evils or what else for where this Ointment cometh no proud or dead Flesh will grow no Flies will come near the place or for Horse or Mare-Filly that is Gelt or Splad anoint but the place and they will neither swell nor fester for it doth not only heal soundly but speedily also provided you lay nothing upon the Wound or Sorrance where the Ointment is administred as neither Hurds Lint Plaisters or the like unless you have occasion to taint a Wound which is deep neither that for any long time or too often and besides the seldomer the Wound is dressed as once a day or once in two days it will heal the better and faster especially if it be brought into good for wardness of healing And together with this Ointment you may do well wash the Sorrance with the Copperas water which by reason it is always first to be used you shall have it first and the Green Ointment after it The making of the Copperas water Take two quarts of fair water and put it into a clean Postnet and put to it half a pound of green Copperas of Salt a handful of ordinary Honey a spoonful and two or three Branches of Rosemary boil all these till one half of the water be consumed and a little before you take it from the Fire put to it the quantity of a Doves Egg of Allom then take it from the Fire and strain it into a Pan and when it is cold put it into a Glass close stopped and keep it for your use And when you are to dress any Sore first wash it very clean with this Water and if the Wound be deep inject it with a Seringe The Vertues of it This Water will of it self Cure any reasonable Sore or Wound but the green Ointment being applied after it is washed will heal any old Ulcer or Fistula whatsoever if they come to the bottom of them and for green Wounds they have not their fellow if you think good you may boyl it in Verjuice or Chamber-lye one being a great Searcher Cleanser and Healer the other a great Drier How to make the green Oâ—nâ—ment Take a clean Skillet or Postnet and first put into it of Rozin the quantity of a Wallnut which being Molten put to it the like quantity of Wax and when that is also Molten put to them of tried Hogs-grease half a pound and when that is Molten put into it of common English Honey one spoonful and when all these are Molten and well stirred together then put in of ordinary Turpentine half a pound and when that is dissolved take it from the Fire and put to it an Ounce of Verdegrease beaten to fine powder and so stir it altogether but be careful it run not over for that the Verdegrease will cause it to arise then set it again upon the Fire till 〈◊〉 begin to Simper then take it off for if you let it boil too much it will turn red and lose its vertue of Healing and become a Corrasive then strain it through a Cloth into some Earthen Pot and keep it for your use close covered The Vertues of it This is the most Excellent Ointment that ever I knew for de Grey hath done such rare Cures with it that he hath been offered ten pounds for it For it cleanseth a Wound be it never so foul or infected with dead proud spungy or naughty Flesh it carnifieth and healeth abundantly and withal so soundly and firmly as that it doth never more break forth it draweth forth Thorns Splinters Nails and all such things in the Flesh and in a word it Cureth all sorts of Sores and Wounds Another Excellent Green Ointment made only in the Month of May which Cureth all sorts of Strains Aches Burnings Scaldings and Swellings whatsoever either in the Throator any other part of the Body Take half a pound of each of these things here under-mentioned viz. Rue red Sage Wormwood and young bay Leaves beat them very well in a Mortar Then take four pounds of new Sheeps Suet and work the Herbs and it very well together with your Hands till they be incorporated and become as one Lump Then put to them two quarts of Sallet-Oyl and Work that also till it become all of one softness and colour Then put it into a new Earthen Pan and let it stand covered eight days then boyl it over a soft Fire the space of two houres or more keeping it stirring all the while Then put into it four Ounces of the Oyl of Spike and let that boyl as long The way to know whether it be well boiled is to put a drop of it upon a Plate and if it be upon a fair Green you may assure your self it is enough Then strain it through a new Canvass and keep it in an Earthen Pot for your use This Ointment will hold very good seven or eight years A very good Receipt to keep back Humours that flow too fast to a Wound you have in Cure which will make it heal so much the sooner Take two pints of white-Wine Vineger or Tartar and put to it an Ounce or more of the powder of Bole-Armoniack and of common Salt well dried the like quantity the powder also of the Bur-dock Root or the Juice of the Leaves and wash the swelled place round about with it once or twice a day and it will be a great help in Order to its Cure Another for the same Vse After you have beaten a penniworth or more of Camphire very small dissolve it in a Pint of Verjuice and boyl it about a quarter of an hour then put it into a Glass close stopped to keep for your use and use it as you have Directions in the former Receipt To Cleanse a Wound Old or New before you dress it Take more or less of white-Wine Vineger according as you have occasion and put into it the powder of the Roots of Elder dried or the Juice of the Leaves with a spoonful of Honey and a little powder of burnt Allom and boyl it about half a quarter of an hour and use it warm Another sort of Green Ointment which is good to heal any Wound Old or New Take a handful of these Herbs here under-mentioned viz. Rosemary Wound-wort Red Sage Mug-wort Comfrey Rue and Southern-wood c. Cut them small and boyl them in a pound and an half of May Butter and the like quantity of Sheeps Suet When you have boiled it according as you have Directions for the Boyling of Ointments in
the Cure of the said Distempers as the others are conditionally he takes the pains to look them out which he may here and there find scattered throughout the whole Work Of the Vse of Aâ—timony Crude Antimony is a Mineral much like unto Lead the best coming from Traâ—silvaâ—ia and Hungaria and is known by its bright and long Flakes 'T is an excellent thing to put into a Horses Provender to cleanse and purifie his Blood and to free his Body from â—olds or other Distempers that lie hid and lurking therein to destroy him The manner how you are to use it is to beat it very small and then Sift it through a â—ine Sieve then strow about a quarter of an Ounce of it Morning and Evening for about a Month together in a quarter of a Peck of his Oates being first wet with good Ale or Beer 'T is sold at the Druggist for 6 d. the pound The Filings of Steel Needles is also very good for the said Distempers used after this manner General things good for the Joynts and Sinews that hath in them any Ach or Numbness Weakness or Swelling If it proceed from a hot Cause you must apply cooling things to it but if from a cold Cause hot things The Oyl that is pressed out of Almonds is a great Mitigater of Pain and all manner of Aches Aquavitae Archangel Alhâ—al Balsam Burgundy Pitch spread upon Leather and â—aid to the Place grieved draweth forth all manner of Pain Burnet Brandy Bay-leaves Brank-urâ—in the Oyl of Chamomel the bruised Roots of Comfrey Cowslips Chickweed Centaury Cow-Parsnips Germander Hawk-weed Mallows or Marsh-mallows Mug-wort Mullen Penney-royal purslain the great Leaved Dock Saxafrage English Tobacco Garden Tansie wilde Mother of Thyme Sow-Fennel Flower-de luce Turpentine Rag weed stamped very small and Boiled with some Hogs-grease to the consumption of the Juice and at the end of the Boiling it add to it Mastick and Olibanum and anoint the place with it Pepper Saffron Garlick Rosemary Frankincense Myrrh Sciatica Cresses wilde Tansie Spignel yellow Wall-Flower Nep Catmint Herb Gerrard Mustard-seed c. Particular Receipts for Aches Take Accopium and mix it well with Sack and chase it very well in with your Hand and if it be of a cold Cause it will take it away at three or four times doing Another Take Brandy or Aquavitae and Chafe and Bath the place grieved very well with it and dry it in with a hot Fire shovel then take a Rag and dip in the Brandy or Aquavitae and strew the inside of it all over with Pepper finely beaten and â—earced and bind it to the place grieved and swath it up with a dry Rowler and do it thus once every day till he become sound Another Take of sweet Butter half a pound of Aquavitae a Gill of Saffron halâ— a dram Pepper â—inely beaten and â—earced three drams three Heads of Garlick bruised mix them altogether and let them stew on the Fire and not boil till it come to a Salve This being chafed in very warm to the place grieved and a brown Paper wet in the same and bind to it with a dry Cloth upon that and so used Morning and Evening will cure it Things good in General for St. Anthonies Fire The Juice of Houseleek tempered with white Lead the Juice of the green Leaves of Garden Night-shade mixed with Barley-Meal is good for it and all hot Inflammations Allum put to the Juice of white Beets the Roots of Cinquefoyl boiled in Vineger the distilled water of Colts-Foot with Elder Flowers and Night-shade and applied Crabs-claws the Juice of Wall penny-wort with the Leaves and Flowers of Feather-few is good for it and all hot Inflammations and Swellings the Roots of Bugloss mixed with Sallet-Oyl and Barley-Meal Water sengreen or fresh water souldier Ducks-meat the leaves of the Goose-berry bush or Hawk-weed bruised and applied with Salt The Juice of Kidney-wort applied also taketh away all outward Heat and Inflammations the Juice of Mallows or Marsh-mallows boiled in Sallet-Oyl and applied is very good a Poultess made of Barley-meal and Hogs-grease with the green Heads of Garden Poppy bruised and applied with Vineger is also very good so is the Juice of Purslain An Ointment made of the Juice of Garden Rue with Oyl of Roses Ceruse and a little Vineger and applied is most excellent the Juice of the bruised leaves of Succory is good so â—s an Ointment made of Woad and the place anointed with it But because it is a Disease very rare to be found in Horses you shall have as strange a Cure 'T is this A particular Receipt for St. Anthonies Fire After you have cast him slit the Skin of the fore head of the Horse under the sore-top and open the same round about with your Cornet rounding it about an â—nch every way which done take a Worm which you shall find in a Fullers Teasel and blow it in alive with a Quill into the place and have a care you kill not the Worm in stitching up the Skin again for in twenty days the Worm will die and in that time the Horse will be throughly cured If you would know the Nature of the Disease you may find it hereafter in a Table set down Alphabetically shewing where the Diseases of a Horse do grow and the causes of them Things good in general for the Antichor or Heart-Sickness To let Blood if you know he wants it and to give him a Purgation of Sack Sallet-Oyl and Sugar Candy or Sugar and Cinnamon given him in Sack or Diapente or Dr. Stephens Water Butter-burr Avens c. A particular Receipt for the Anticor or Heart-Sickness After the Swelling appears and you have taken a good quantity of Blood on both sides of the Neck give him the Drink of Diapente with Bâ—er or Ale which you may find in my First Part putting therein one Ounce of brown Sugar Candy and half an Ounce of London-Treacle which will drive the Sickness and Grief from his heart which-done anoint the Swelling with this Ointment Ointment Take Hogs-Grease Boars Grease and Basâ—licon of each three Ounces Incorporate them well together and anoint and rub the Swelling every day till it become soft then open it and let forth the Corruption and wash the sore with the Copperas water which you may find in my First Part. And â—aint it with your green Ointment which you may sind as aforesaid and it will be soon whole Things good in General for an Vpper or Nether Aâ—taint or any hurt by Over-Reaching Before you apply your Salve lay the Place bare without hollowness and wash it with Beer and Salt or Vineger and Salt and then what will Cure a Mallender or Sellander will Cure this Particular Receipts good for an upper Attairt Take Venice-Turpentine one Ounce and Brandy three spoonfuls beat them well together till they come to a Salve and anoint the Sore very well therewith and heat it well in with a hot Iron
of Populeum one Ounce of Galbanum one Ounce of the drops of Storax one Ounce of common Wax one pound of Rozin Cabial half a pound of Viscus Italicus one Ounce and a half of Apoxima one Ounce of the Juice of Hysop one Ounce of the drops of Armoniack one Ounce of Pitch half a Pound let them be well molten together and incorporated and make a Plaister thereof Another Plaister to dry up any Swelling VVind-gall Splint or Bladder in or about the Joynts Take of Virgin-Wax half a pound of Rozin one pound and a quarter of Galbanum one Ounce and a half of Bitumen half a pound of Myrrh secundary one pound of Armoniack three Ounces of Costus three Ounces boyl all these together in an Earthen Pot saving the Armoniack and Costus which being first Ground like fine Flower must be added unto the other things after that they have been boiled and cooled and then boiled together again and well stirred so as they may be incorporated together and made all one substance and then applying as occasion shall be administred Things good to dissolve Humours To bath the Sorrance well with hot melted Butter and to strew upon it the powder of Rozin for a day or two then take Cream and Soot and work them to a thick Paste and apply it to the Sorrance and it will dry up the humour and skin and heal the sore VVormwood Sage Rosemary and the Bark of an Elm or of a Pine and Linseed boiled in Oyl and make a Bath thereof and lay it to the grieved place and it will dissolve any humour that are bound and gathered together A pound of Figs stamped with Salt till they come to a Salve dissolveth all manner of Humors by opening the Pores and giving a large Passage Look for more Receipts in my first Part of this Nature Things good to stop Humours The Flower of VVheat mixed with the Juice of Henbane stayeth the Flux of Humors The Flowers of the VVillow-Tree boiled in white-Wine and given inwardly drieth up evil humors Wormwood Sage Bolearmoniack Camphopia a kind of Gum Cardimonium is good Things good to drive back Humours Vineger Salt and bold-Armoniack beaten together and spread about the Sore driveth it back or White-Lead and Sallet Oyl beaten together or Red Lead and Sallet Oyl or else Vâ—gueâ—um Album Camphoratum and such like but to take away the evil Humours of the Legs take of common Honey Turpentine Mastick Frankincense Bolearmoniack made into powder Sanguis Draconis New laid Eggs white-Wine Vineger the Flower of Rice mixed altogether and make a Plaister of it and Lap it round about the Legs from the Feet to the upper Houghs do this four or five times Hmours made thin Garlick maketh thin thick and gross Humours and cutteth such as are tough and clammy French Mercury a Decoction made of it and Cummin-seeds Humours Purged A Conserve made of Musk Roses are a great Purger of waterish Humours Sene purgeth cholerick and phlegmatick Humours also gross and Melancholick Simples that are good to cleanse the Body from all manner of evil Humours Agrimony Anniseeds the inner Rind of the Barberry-tree boiled in Ale and given him for three or four Mornings together cleareth the Body from Itching Mange Tettars Ring-wormes Yellows and Boyls The Flowers of Broom or Fuz clenseth it of Choler The Decoction of the root of Butchers Broom or Knee-holly made in Wine and Treacle pâ—c thereto clenseth the Breast from Phlegm and the Chest from much clammy Humors gathered therein wild Marjorem clenseth it from Choler the seed of Cow Parsnips clenseth it from tough phlegmatick matter therein the powder of English Rubarb steeped all night in Ale and given him fasting clenseth the Stomach Liver and Blood by purging away those evil Humours that offend the Body the distilled Water of Dragons given him is a great Clenser of the internal Parts Mallows or Macsh-mallows does the like Mercury clenseth the Breast and Lungs from Phlegm the distilled Water of the Star-thistle or Root beaten to powder is very good Common Wormwood clenseth the Body from Choler Ground-Pine is good for all Diseases of the Brain procured from cold and phlegmatick Humours c. Simples that are good to dry up all manner of evil Humours in Sores or Wounds The powder of the root of the Butter-bur doth wonderfully help them wilde Bryar-balls dried and beaten to powder and strewed upon them doth the like the root of Sow Fennel beaten to powder and used as before doth the like so doth Fig wort Mother-wort and Lung-wort Nettles bruised and applied to them is very good Pollipody Rupture-wort bruised and applied to the place grieved drieth up all manner of filthy Ulcers and Humours Green Copperas boiled in water and the place bathed therewith drieth them up About two Ounces of burnt Allom put into a quart of spring-Spring-water after it comes off the Fire and the place grieved Bathed therewith warm Morning and Evening and a wet Cloth dipped in the water and bound about it three or four times double wet is excellent good to dry them up the powder of the root of Turmentil is good The Flower of Wheat mixed with the Juice of Henbane laid to them stayeth the Flux of them to the Joynts the Leaves Bark or Seed of the Willow-Tree doth the like the Flowers also hath the same Faculty in drying up of evil humours Wood-Sage digesteth Humours c. Things good in General for the Shedding of the Hair from the Main or Tail To anoint the Main and Crest with black Sope and then to make a strong Lie of Ash Ashes or else of Urine and Ashes and wash it all over with it but if there should grow on the Horses Tail a Canker which will consume away â—oth the flesh and bone then lay some Oyl of Vitriol upon it and it w ll kill it if you find it eat too much 't is but wetting it with cold water and it will stop it Or take of green Copperas Allom and white Copperas boiled in Running water till half be consumed and wash it with it till it be whole but if the Hair fall away then take Southernwood and burn it to Ashes and mix it with common Oyl and anoint it with it and it will presently bring Hair again If it be in the Main let him Blood but if it be both in the Main and Tail then take Quick-silver and tried Hogs-grease the Quick-silver being first mortified with fasting Spittle incorporate them very well together till the Hogs-grease be of a perfect Ash-colour and anoint the Sorrance with it every day once heating it in with a hot Fire-shovel and three or four days thus dressing him he will be well Things good in General to take away Hair in any part of the Body The Gum that grows on the Body of Ivy rubbed therewith for it is of so hot a quality that it doth obscurely burn the Juice of Fumitory of that which groweth amongst Barley
is warm clap Flox of the Horses Colour all over the out-side of the Canvass and let the Plaister remain on till it fall away of it self and after that you may apply such good Unguents as you may think most expedient for the Malady but if the Bone be not out then put in a French Rowel a little beneath the stifling place and let it remain in fifteen days turning it once every day and at fifteen days end take it forth and heal up the Orifice with your green Ointment in my first Part. Another which is very good The only way for the Cure of this Imperfection is the common way that Farriers generally use viz. To swim him in some deep River or Pond till he sweat about the Ears which will put the Bone into its right place again When you think that he hath swum enough take him out of the Water and throw an old Blanket over him to prevent catching of Cold and lead him Home gently When you have him in the Stable put a Wedge of Wood about the bredth of a Six-pence between his Toe and his Shoo on the contrary Foot behind and when you find him thoroughly dry anoint him upon the grieved part with Piece-grease or Oyl of Turpentine and strong Beer of equal parts alike well shaked and mixt together in a Glass Vial Chafe it in very well with your Hand one holding at the same time before it a hot Barr of Iron or Fire-shovel to make it sink in the better Or for want of them you may apply unto it Brandy and Common Soap and strong Beer mixt together and used as you did the Turpentine These are very sharp Medicines especially the Turpentine which will cause the place to swell and heave up but fear them them not for they will work a speedy Cure To Cure the String-Halt Take up the Vein in the Thigh and then anoint all the Leg and the Thigh from the Body down to the very Foot a long time together holding a red hot Fire-shovel to the place and let him be anointed with this Ointment Take of the Oyl Petroilum of the Oyl of Wormes of the Oyl of Nerval of Patch or Peâ—ce-grease of the Oyl of Spike of each one Ounce of London-Treacle two Ounces and of Hogs-grease one pound melt all these upon the Fire then take it off and keep it stirring till it be throughly cold and with this anoint the Visited Member every day once and then Wisp him with a soft Thumb-band of Hay from the Pastern to the top of the Hoof and thus do for ten days together rubbing and chafing in the Ointment very well a long time together holding a hot Fire-shovel near it the better to cause it to sink into the Sinews Nerves and Joynts But after you have done anointing him keep him warm and well Littered and let the Thumb-bands be daily made lesser and lesser and shorter and shorter till you perceive him to Handle both Legs alike and your Horse to be Recovered but you must not Ride him that he may sweat much in a Month after and so soon as warm Weather cometh turn him to Grass in some dry Pasture where is Water and take him up again about Bartholomew-Tide or before the Cold cometh and whilest he coth remain in the Stable keep him warm and so he will be free of his String-halt and be a sound Horse again To Anoint him also with Acopum is very good With this Receipt De Grey says he hath Cured sundry Horses of this Malady How to make your Unguentum-Theriacum which is good for any Ach in the Joynts Griefs in the Hip Stifling Place Legs Shoulders Pastern or any other part of the Legs a Back Sinew-sprain only excepted Take Norvel of Oyl of Pamphylion and of black Sope of each two Ounces and of Tried Hogs-grease half a pound melt them all upon a gentle Fire and being molten put into it of ordinary Treacle two penny worth then take it from the Fire and keep it stirring till it be cold then will it be of a dun colour Keep it in a Gally-pot for your use and when you use it anoint the place grieved with the same rubbing and chafing it in very well and heating it well in with a hot Fire-shovel Hot Simples in General Agarick Aloes Allum Anniseeds Aristolochia Assafetida Asonteo Asarabacca Arsmart Archangel Angelica Alexanders Alehoof Balm Garden-Bazil Bayberries wilde running Bitony smelling like Marjorem Burrage is hot and cold so is Brank-ursin Briony Broom Butter-bur Burdock Brimstone Celandine Chervil Garden clary Clowns wound-wort Calamus Coloquintida Garden cummin Chamock Cinnamon Cloves China Darnel Elecampane Fennel Gentian Garlick Germander stinking Gladwin Golden Rod Gromel English Galingale Ginger Glass-wort is so hot that it hath a costive burning quality Galls Grains of Paradice Galbanum Hemp-seed Garden Hysop Honey St. Johns-wort Juniper-berries Ivy Jack by the Hedge Iris Knee-holm Lavender Lavender-cotton Ladies smocks Garden Lilly Lovage Leeks Mallows and Marsh-Mallows wilde Marjorem sweet Marjorem Marigolds Master-wort Melilote French and Dogs Mercury Spear-mint Misle-toe Mother-wort Mouse-ear Mug-wort Mustard-seed Neesing-roots Nutmeg One blade Pepper Rag-wort Rest-harrow the wilde Rochet Rosemary Garden Rue Saffron Sage Sanicle Sarasens Confound Savin common Saxafrage Burnet Saxafrage Scabius English Scurvey-Grass Self-heal Smallage Sope-wort Southernwood Sea star-wort Staves-acre Garden Tansie Time Tutsan Turmerick Valerian Veruain Wold Weld or Diars-weed Fennegreek Scutchanele London Treacle Cooling Simples in General Clove Gilly-flowers Groundsel is an universal Medicine coming of Heat whatsoever Hawk-weed Housleek Knot-grass Kidney-wort Lettuce Water-Lilly Licoris common Liver-wort Medlars Money-wort Tree-Moss Ground-Moss the unripe fruit of Mul-berries Mace common Night-shade may be used either inwardly or outwardly and is no way dangerous as the others are Navel-wort Orpin used outwardly Water-Plantine Land-Plantine Pomegranate Queen of the Medows Shepherds Purse common Sorrel Wood-Sorrel Sow-thistles Strawberry-leaves Succory Stone-crop Star-wort Spinach wilde Tansie all the parts of the black Thorn or Sloe-bush Medow trefoyl Honey-suckles both the Vervains Vine-leaves Violets Vipers-bugloss Vineger the Leaves Flowers Seed and Bark of the Willow-Tree Yarrow Antimonium Alkanet Garden Arach Barberry-bush Barley Bilberries Blew-bottle Bucks horn Plantine Bole-armoniack Comfrey Cranes-bill Dandelion all the kinds of Docks are generally cold Ducks Meat applied outwardly is a great Cooler of hot Inflammations Fumitory Things good in General for a Prick or Stub in the Sole of a Horses Foot To pull off his Shoo and pare his Foot so deep that you may discover the Hole making the Mouth of it about the bredth of a Two-pence then wash it well with Chamberly and Salt or green Copperas and Allum boiled together in Water then Tack on his Shoo again and stop the Hole with Turpentine Hogs-grease and Verdegrease melted together and lay Flax or Towe upon it and put over that Cows dung and cover it with Leather and splint it with two cross splints and renew it once in two or three days
virtues of it in the Table of Simples the price the pound is 6 s. 0 d. Steel Filings cleanseth not only the Reins and Bladder from Gravel but is also a great Purifyer and Sweetner of the Blood the price the pound is 0 s. 6 d. White-lead is of a cold dry and earthy quality It helps inflammations and dries up evil humours the price of it the pound is 0 s. 4 d. Lythargy of Gold and Silver binds and dries much they fill up Ulcers with flesh and heals them the Gold is accounted the best and is worth the pound 0 s. 5 d. The Silver the pound is 0 s. 3 d. Red Lead mixed with Sallet-Oyl being beaten to a very fine Powder and the grieved place where the Pole-evil is anointed with it every day and heated well in with a hot Fire shovel will sink it the price of it the pound is 0 s. 3 d. Lapis Haematites or Blood-stone is good to stanch Bleeding inwardly and outwardly being Ground very fine and given him It hath also many other Medicinal Vertues The price the pound is 3 s. 0 d. Sal Prunella the pound is 0 s. 10 d. Mercury Precipitate the pound is 8 s. 0 d. Sal Armoniack is hot and dry in the fourth degree the pound is 1 s. 0 d. Sal Jemma see the vertues of it in the Table of Simples the price the pound is 0 s. 4 d. Sâ—â—t-Peter refined in the Lump evaporateth It comforteth the Sinews and taketh away tyring and weariness The price in the Lump or Chrystallized the pound is 1 s 0 d. Tutia is a certain Mineral that is cold in the first and dry in the second degree and is very good for the defects in the Eyes the price the pound is 2 s. 0 d. Vitriol which we call Copperas is of two Kinds viz. Vitriol Romanum which we call green Copperas and Vitriol Albium which we call white Copperas They are both hot and dry but the white accounted the stronger They take away Scurfs and kill Scabs boiled in Spring water and the grieved place Bathed therewith the price of the white the Pound is 1 s. 6 d. The price of the Green the pound is 2 s. 4 d. It is very good laid in Spring water till it be Coloured for sore Eyes Vitriol Common or Copperas green and white which is sold at the Colour-shops is worth about three half pence or two pence the pound Irish Slate beaten to a very fine Powder and about an Ounce of it given in a quart of warm â—le is very good for a Horse that hath been bruised by Falls the price the pound is 0 s. 8 d. SIMPLES that you may buy â—heaper at the Druggists t' en you can prepare them your selves Elecampane Powder the best the Pound is 1 s. 2 d. Elecampane Powder the common the Pound is 0 s. 8 d. Liquoris Powder the best the Pound is 1 s. 4 d. Liquor is powder the common the Pound is 0 s. 5 d Red Sanders Powder the best the Pound is 1 s. 4 d. Turmerick powder the best the Pound is 0 s. 11 d. Powder of Ginger the Pound is 0 s. 6 d. PRICS of s veral Things bought of the GROCERS Sugar candy white is good for sore Eyes being beaten to Powder and blown into them the price of it the pound is 1 s. 4 d. Sugar-candy brown is good made up with other Simples or Compounds for Colds or Coughs the price the pound is 0 s. 10 d. Common Treacle is also very good for Colds Coughs and Surfeits made up with other Compounds or his Drink sweetned therewith and a Lump of sweet Butter put to it the price the pound is 0 s. 3 d. OYLS Oyl of O rganum is very good for all manner of Swellings occasioned by Bruises or Strains in the Nerves and Sinews the price the pound is 32 s. Oyl of Euphorbium helps Sinews and strengthens them mollifying their hardness the price the pound is 32 s. Oyl of St. Johnswort is also very good for all Sinew-Strains and Swellings in any part of the Body the price the pound is 1 s. 6 d. Nâ—â—vâ— Oyl is good to strengthen the Nerves and Sinews the price of the best the pound is 0 s. 6 d. The price of the Common is 0 s. 3 d. Oyl of Turpentine is good for Swellings Bruises Strains and old sores and Fâ—â—â—ulaes the price the pound is 0 s. 6 d. Oyl of Spike is also good for all manner of St ains whether in the Shouder or Joynts and also for all manner of Swellings in any part of the Body the price of the righ the pound is 1 s. 0 d. Oyl of Peter is very good for stains hard swellings splints spavins and â—ruises The Places grieved being anointed with it the price the pound is 2 s. 6 d. Oyl of Exceter is also good for the same Distempers the price the pound is 1 s 6 d. Oyl of sweet Almonds helps Colds and Coughs wet and dry sweetned with brown sugar Candy it is good also for Ulcers in the Bladder and Reins and is a great Encâ—easer of seed if you give it inwardly use new for it will soure in three or four days the price the ounce is 0 s. 4 d. Oyl of Bays is good for the Cholick and is a Sovereign Remedy for any Disease in any part of the Body coming of Wind or Cold you may safely give him feur or five drops of it at a time in any Compound Medicine appropriated to that use the price the pound is 1 s. 4 d. Oyl of Swallows is very good to anoint the Sinews of a Horse that stumbles or ae shrunk to stretch and make them give way again and is also good for all manner of Bruises Sprains and Strains the price the pound is 1 s. 6 d. Chymical PREPARATIONS bought of the Druggist Mercurius dulcis sub the Ounce is 0 s. 6 d. Tartaâ—um Vitriolarum the Ounce is 1 s. 0 d. Chymical Prices of CYLS and SPIRITS which do Corrode and eat off dead and proud Flesh and Dony Excrescences Aqua fortis Singlethe Pound is 2 s. 0 d. Aqua fortis double the Pound is 4 s. 0 d. Oyl of Anniseeds the Ounce is 0 s. 8 d. Oyl of Organum the Ounce is 0 s. 3 d. Oyl of Tartar Deliq. the ounce is 0 s. 6 d. Oyl of Vitriol the ounce is 0 s. 3 d. COMPOUNDS or ELECTUARIES Diascordium stops fluxes and mightily strengthers the Heart it is not so hot but it may be Given to a sick Horse to provoke Sleep one ounce of it is enough to give him at a time dissolved in a quart of warm Beer the price the ounce is 0 s. 2 d. Diatessaron see the virtues of it in the First Part 'T is worth the Pound at the Apothecaries 1 s. 8 d. but if you make it your self you may make it for 1 s. Mithridate is good against Poison provokes Sweat is good for Consumptions and Colds helps the
Kernels of the Nut is somewhat moist the leaves are good for hot swellings and the Water that is found in the hollow places of it will Cure Man or Bâ—ast of any Scurf Scab or running Tetters anointed therewith Blites are of a cold and moist Temperature and are good to stay Fluxes of Blood Bilberries called by some VVhorts and Whortle-berries are cold even in the latter end of the second degree and dry also and are of a binding quality there is two sorts of them a black and a red the black are good for hot Agues and to cool the heat of the Liver and Stomach and do bind the Belly the red are more binding and stay any Fluxes of Blood whatsoever used outwardly or taken inwardly Byfoil or Tway-blade are often used for Wounds both green and old and to Conglutinate and Knit Ruptures Bitumen is the fatness of the Earth swimming above the water which cast upon the Shore condensates and becomes hard and resembles dry pitch it discusses mollifies glutinates and defends from Inflammation It takes away gross humors in all parts of the Body and cures the Weakness of the Sinews Palsey and diseases of the Arteries from a cold cause Birch-tree the Juice of the leaves is good to wash a sore Mouth or Throat and is good to break the Stone in the Kidneys or Bladder Birds-foot all the kinds of them are of a drying quality and therefore very good to be used in Wounds drinks and to be applied outwardly for the same purpose but the paler Flowered Birds-foot is good to break the Stone in the Back and Kidneys and helpeth the Rupture taken inwardly Bishops-weed is hot and dry in the third degree of a bitter taste and something sharp withal it provokes Lust causeth Urine is good for the Wind and for the biting of venomous Beasts Bistort or Snakeweed is cold and dry in the third degree the leaves and roots are excellent good to resist Poison or Plague and is good for all manner of Fluxes of blood whatsoever and stayeth a Lask is good for the Yellows Ruptures or Burstness and staling of blood One blade is a very Cordial Herb and will cause sweat and is sovereign against the Plague by expelling the Poison and is an excellent VVound-herb for green and old wounds and Sinews cut The Bramble or black Bush the flowers and leaves of the unripe fruit do very much bind and dry and is good for all kind of Fluxes the buds leaves and branches of it while they are green are of good use in Ulcers and putrid Sores the Root is good against the Stone in the Reins or Kidneys the leaves of them are good for sore Mouths and Throats or Quinsey the powder of the dried leaves strewed on Cankers do wonderfully heal them Burrage and Bugloss is in a mean betwixt hot and cold the leaves and roots are good against Pestilential Feavers Poison of venomous Beasts Yellows Itch Tettars Wormes Weakness Corruption Cough sore Mouth or Throat Blew-bottle is naturally cold dry and binding the powder of the dried leaves is good taken inwardly is good for broken Veins and given with Plantine water expelleth Poison or the Plague the Juice of it is good to soddâ—r green wounds together and is good to heal Sores in the Mouth And the Juice of the leaves dropped into the Eyes taketh away the Inflammation of them Braâ—k-ursine Bears-breech and Acanthus is betwixt hot and cold being somewhat moist with a mollifying and digesting quality as are these of the Mallow and are good to put in Glisters to Loosen the Belly the Decoction taken inwardly is good for the bloody Flux and Burstness and is good for Hectick Feavers Or applied made up in a Poultess unite broken bones and strengthens the Joynts that have been put out and is an excellent Remedy for burnings by Fire White Bâ—iony is hot and dry in all parts in the third degree both the white and the black are furious Martial Plants and purge the Belly with great violence and therefore you are to Correct it and then it is very good for all manner of Griefs in the Head as also for the Joynts and Sinews Cramps and Convulsions Dropsey provoketh Urine and is good for the Stone Brook-lyme or VVater-Pimpernel is a hot and biting Martial Plant and is of the same Nature as Water-Cresses and are good to cleanse the blood provokes Urine and breaks the Stone Butchers broom is hot in the second and dry in the first and is of a cleansing Nature it openeth Obstructions provoketh Urine expelleth Gravel and the Stone and is good for the Strangury Yellows and pain in the Head Bâ—oom and Broom-rape the Twigs Flowers and feed of it are hot and dry in the second degree they are of a thin Essence and are of force to cleanse and open and especially the feed which is drier and not so full of superfluous moisture it is good for the Dropsey Cleanser of the Reins Kidneys and Bladder from the Gravel and Stone Bucks-horn Plantine is of a drying and binding quality it is good against Poison Stone in the Reins and Kidneys stoppeth a Lask and is good for a bloody Urine and bloody Flux Bucks-horn is called Harts-horn Herb-Ivy Wort-cresses or Swines cresses their vertues are the same with Bucks-horn Plantine Bugle is of a mean Temperature and is good taken inwardly to dissolve Congealed Blood that is occasioned by Bruises or Falls and is effectual in all VVound-drinks it is good for Fistulaes Gangrenes the leaves of it being bruised and applied to them Burnet is a drier and a binder yet it is meanly cool it is a most precious Herb little inferiour to Bitony it stancheth bleeding as well inwardly as outwardly and is good to stay the Lask and bloody Flux It is good for all old Ulcers or Running Cankers and moist Sores to be used either by Juice or Decoction of the Herb or Root the seed is also good for the same Purposes aforesaid The Butter-bur or Petasitis is hot and dry in the second degree and of thin parts the Roots is good against the Plague and Pestilential Feavers by provoking Sweat the Powder of the Root given in VVine is good to resist the force of Poison It is good for VVheezing and difficulty of Breathing kills flat and broad Worms Bran is hot and dry and dissolveth very much Burâ—-deck is dry and wasting the root is something hot the leaves are cooling and moderately drying and is good for old Ulcers and Sores the Juice of the leaves or roots is good against the biting of any venomous Beast the seed of it is most excellent to provoke Urine being beaten to Powder and drank in white-Wine or Ale and remedieth the pains in the Bladder It is good for Burnings Cankers Buâ—â— reâ—ds are cold and dry of Complexion Vipers bugloss all the kinds of them are cold and dry of Complexion Sea Bind-weed is hot and dry in the second degree Beares-â—oot or black Hellebore is hotter in taste then
other Fluxes of Blood D ll is hot in the end of the second degree and dry in the beginning of the same or in the end of the first degree it provoketh Urine and is good against Windiness it is good to case Swellings and Pains Devils-bit is somewhat bitter and is of a hot and dry temperature and that in the latter end of the second degree it is good against the Plague and all Pestilential diseases as Poisons Feavers and biting of venomous Beasts It is good for Bruises either inward or outward it is good to expel Wind drive forth Wormes The distilled Water of it is good for green Wounds old Sores and cleanseth the Body inwardly and the Seed outwardly from Sores Scurss and Itches Docke all of them are generally cold a little and moderately and some more They do all of them dry but not after one manner yet some are of opinion that they are dry in the third degree The red Dock cleanseth the Liver but the yellow is best to take when the Blood is afflicted with choler The Seeds of most of the kinds do stay Lasks and Fluxes of all sorts they are good for the itch and breaking out of the Skin if it be bathed therewith Dodder is of the Nature of the Herb on which it groweth is more dry then hot and that in the second degree It is a Purger of Choler and Phlegm from the Head Obstructions of the Liver Gall and Yellows Dogs-grass Quich-Grass or Couch-Grass opens Obstructions of the Liver and Gall stopping of Urine and easeth the pains of the Belly Inflammations and wasteth the Stones in the Bladder and Ulcers thereof Also being boiled the seed doth more provoke Urine and stayeth the Lask it is a good Remedy against all Diseases coming of stoppage Doves-foot or Cranes-bill is cold and somewhat dry with some binding quality It is good for the Wind Cholick and Stone the decoction thereof in Wine is a good Wound-drink for inward Wounds Hurts or Bruises and is good to cleanse and heal outward Sores Ulcers Fistulaes and green VVounds and is excellent for Ruptures Ducks-meat is cold and moist in a sort in the second degree it is good for Inflammations and St. Anthonies Fire Dragons is under Mars and therefore the best way to use it is after it is distilled and then the VVater of it cleanseth all internal parts of the Body and so it doth the external from Scurfand Scabs and being dropped into the Eye taketh away the Pin and VVeb and is good against Pestilence and Poison Dogs-tooth is of a very hot temperament and of an excrementitious Nature The Roots of all the Daffodils are hot and dry in the third degree Dyars-weed is hot and dry of Temperature the Root as also the whole Herb heats and dries in the third degree it cuts attenuateth opens and disgests It is good for the biting of venomous Beasts and Poison taken inwardly or applied outwardly Bastard-Dirtany is hot and dry in the second degree and of a wasting attenuating and opening quality and is good for the Stone in the Kidneys and Bladder Dropwort or Filipendula is hot and dry in the third degree opening cleansing and a little binding All the kinds of them have the same faculty unless it be the pernicious Drop-wort they are good against pains in the Bladder and break the Stone E. Elder is of a drying quality glewing and moderately disgesting It purgeth choler and phlegm both the inward Rind and the Berries and the Dropsey the Bark of the Root worketh more powerfully then either of them it is good against the biting of any venomous Beasts the Juice of it asswageth the hot Inflammations of the Eyes and all manner of Burnings and Scaldings being laid to the grieved place Dwarf-Elder called Dane-wort and Wall-wort it is of Temperature hot and dry in the third degree it doth waste and consume by Purging of Choler and Phlegm and Water and is more powerful then the common Elder and hath all the Properties of it The Elm-Tree the Leaves and Bark of it is moderately hot with a cleansing Faculty the Leaves bruised and applied healeth green Wounds it is good to Cure a Scurf Ruptures broken Bones Swellings and Burnings Endive and Succorie are cold and dry in the third degree and withal somewhat binding it is a fine cooling and cleansing Plant the Garden Endive is colder and not so dry and cleansing the Juice or the water of it is good to cool the excessive heat of the Stomach and Liver or any inflammation in any part of the Body and being applied outwardly it is good for Ulcers hard Swellings and Pestilential Sores Elecampane is hot and dry in the third degree especially when it is dry for being green and full of Juice it is full of superfluous moisture which somewhat abateth the heat and dry quality thereof It is good for Colds and Coughs and to warm a cold Stomach Wind short-Windedness Wheezing Stone in the Bladder resisteth Poison the Plague Cramps Convulsions Wormes Cankers Fistulaes Ensula or Devils-Milk is hot sharp and drying and draws choler from the Joynts Eringo or Sea-holly breedeth Seed exceedingly and is hot and moist it is good for the Yellows Dropsey Cholick provoketh Urine expelleth the Stone the Roots bruised and applied outwardly is good for the Farcin or taken inwardly for the same disease it is good for broken Bones and to draw thornes out of the Flesh the Juice dropped into the Ears helpeth the Impostumes in them the distilled water of it is good for all the Purposes aforesaid Eye-bright is hot and dry but yet more hot then dry the Juice or the Water of it is good to help all Infirmities of the Eyes that cause dimness Elusa is a Herb like a Spunge and is hot in the fourth degree it drieth and cleanseth exceedingly and of some is called Wolfes Milk Excrusion is that which we call Oxicration it is a certain Composition of Aceto and Water and is good to allay Swellings and Tumors Eggs the Whites are cold and the Yolks are hot and doth strengthen and incarnate the shells beaten to powder and given in Beer or Ale is very good to expel the Stone out of the Bladder F. Fern both the kinds of them Male and Female are hot and dry and somewhat binding their Vertues are both alike the Roots of them are good to kill Wormes the green leaves purge the Belly of cholerick Humors An Ointment made of the Roots bruised with Hogs-Grease is good for the Wounds in the flesh the powder of them is good to dry up moistures in malignant Ulcers The Water Ferne or Osmond-Royal is hot and dry but lesser then the former and hath all the Vertues the other hath but more effectually and is good for Wounds or Bruises and the like the decoction thereof being drunk or boiled in an Ointment or Oyl as a Balsam or Balm is very good for Bruises or Bones broken and out of Joynt it is good for the Cholick
Heath-bush hath a digesting Faculty the Flowers and Leaves are good to lay upon the biting of venomous Beasts and the Bark and Leaves may be used for the same Causes as Turmerick is Harts-horn is dry yet it strengthneth very much and expelleth Poison Honey is hot and dry in the second degree it cleanseth the Stomach and Entrails stoppeth Humours and incarnateth Wounds and cleanseth also the Reins and Bladder Hyacinths do little cleanse and bind the seeds are dry in the third degree but the Roots are dry and cold in the first Hellebore vide Bears-foot I. St. Johns-wort is hot and dry being of substance thin and is a most excellent Herb for inward Bruises or Hurts or outward Wounds it is good to open Obstructions dissolve Swellings and strengthen those Parts that are weak and feeble it is good for Bleedings inward or outward for the biting of any venomous Creature and is good to cast forth the Stone in the Bladder by Urine Ivy that groweth upon Walls or upon Trees it hath a certain binding and cold substance and somewhat biting the Flower of it is good for the bloody Flux and Lask the Leaves or Flowers outwardly applied is good for the Nerves and Sinews the yellow Berries of them are good for the Yellows and killeth the Wormes is good for the Plague provokes Urine breaks the Stone It is good for to cleanse foul Ulcers Sores and green Wounds or for Burnings and Scaldings The Juice of the Berries and Leaves squirted up the Nose purgeth the Head from Rheum and cureth the Ulcers therein and is good given for a Surfeit The â—uniper Bush is hot and dry in the third degree the Bâ—rries are also hot but not so dry they are good against Poison Plague the biting of any venomous Creature provokes Urine is good for the Dropsey strengthens the Stomack expels Wind they are good for the Cough Shortness of Breath Consumptions Pains in the Belly Ruptures Cramps and strengthens all the Members of the Body A Lye made of the Ashes of the Wood and the Body Bathed therewith is good for the Mange and all manner of Scabs the Berries break the Stone and brings a Horse to a Stomach and is good for the Falling Sickness Jack by the Hedge or Sauce alone is hot and dry but much lesser then Garlick the seed boiled in Wine is a good Remedy against the Wind-Cholick or Stone the green Leaves are good to heal Ulcers Iris is a Root that is hot and dry it cleanseth and ripeneth and is good against Colds and purgeth Ulcers Iron-Rust is hot and dry in the second degree it comforteth and retaineth evil Humors K. Knot-Grass all the kinds of them are cold in the second degree and dry in the third and are of a binding quality it is good to cool the heat of the Stomach and to stay any Flux of Blood or Humours as Lask bloody Flux it is good for the Falling of the Seed provoketh Urine helpeth the Strangury and expelleth the Gravel and Stone it killeth Wormes is good to cool all manner of Inflammations and to expel the Poison or Venom of any venomous Creatures it helpeth Gangreens Fistulaes Cankers and Ulcers and is good for fresh and green Wounds and to strengthen broken Joynts and Ruptures Kidney-wort or VVall-penny-royal or VVall-penny-wort the distilled water of it given is good to allay all hot Inflammations of the Stomach and Liver or Bowels and being outwardly applied is good for outward Heats Inflammations and St. Anthonies Fire and healeth â—ore Kidneys torn and fretted by the Stone provoketh Urine is good for the Dropsey it helpeth the bloody Flux and Cureth green Wounds and stayeth their Bleeding Knape-weed helpeth to stay Bleeding at the Mouth and Nose and other outward parts and all inward Bleedings of Veins and also the Flux of the Belly and inward Bruises it is good for Ruptures taken inwardly or outwardly applied it drieth up the noisture of all Cankerous and Running Sores and healeth them up gently Knee-holm or Butchers broom the Roots which are chiefly used are hot and meanly dry with a thinness of Essence the decoction of it provoketh Urine breaketh the Stone and driveth forth Gravel It raiseth up tough Phâ—egm that sticketh at the Chest and Lungs and the Berries of it is good for the Yellows L. Ladies Mantle is good for Inflammations and to stay Bleedings Fluxes of all sorts and helpeth Ruptures and Bruises it is one of the best Wound-herbs that is both inwardly taken and outwardly applied Lavender is hot in the first and dry in the second degree it is good for all the Griefs of the Head and Brain that proceed of a cold cause it strengthens the Stomach and freeth the Liver and Spleen from Obstructions expelleth the dead Foal and Secundine the Flowers distilled and so used are good to cause Urine and to ease the pain of the Cholick it is good for the Falling Sickness French Lavender hath a cold and earthly substance by reason wherèof it bindeth it is of force to take away Obstructions to extenuate and make thin to cleanse and to strengthen not only all the Entrails but the whole Body also Sea Lavender is very Astringent or Binding the Seed beaten to powder and given in Wine or Beer helpeth the Cholick and Strangury and stayeth all Fluxes of Blood Lavender-Cotton is hot and dry in the third degree it resisteth Poison and helpeth the biting of any venomous Creature the Powder of it is good for the Mattering of the Yard it killeth the Wormes and Scabs Ladies Smecks or Cuckoc-Flowers all the sorts of them are hot and dry in the second degree they differ not much from the Water-Cresses they provoke Urine break the Stone and warm a cold Stomach Lâ—ttice is a cold and moist Herb but not in the extream degree of Cold they Loosen the Belly being boiled It is good for the pains of the Bowels coming by choler they are naught for short-Windedness and the Lungs Water-Lilly the seed of it hath a drying force the leaves and flowers of it are cold and moist and cool all Inflammations both inward and outward the Seed as well as the Fruit stayeth Fluxes of Blood or Humors either inward or outward and is good for the Mattering of the Yard Lilly of the Valley called Conval-Lilly or May-Lilly the distilled water of it helpeth all Inflammations in the Eyes and the Pin and Web. White Lillies which are the Garden Lillies are hot and partly of a subtil substance but the root is dry in the first degree and hot in the second they expel Poison and are very good in Pestilent Feavers An Ointment made of the Roots with Hogs-Grease is good for Scabs and unites Sinews when they are Cut and is a great Clenser of Ulcers the Oyl of it is good to bring any Head-swelling to ripeness to break Licoris is very familiar to the Body of Man or Beast It hath a certain binding quality which warmeth and cometh nearest of all to a mean
and bindeth it is good for an old and dry Cough short Windedness Stone Gravel Wormes and is put into Glisters to mitigate the pains coming by Wind it is good for the Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen it is good for a sore Throat it asswageth hot Swellings Impostumes Burnings and Scaldings by Fire or Water or all other hot Tumors or Inflammations it cleanseth foul rotten Ulcers and Scabs Penny-royal both the sorts of it are of a drying Faculty and of subtil Parts it maketh thin tough Phlegm and warmeth any cold place where it is applied it expelleth the dead Foal and Secundine it helpeth the biting of venomous Creatures it cleanseth soul Ulcers it is good for Cramps Convulsions of the Sinews the Cough Dropsey and Yellows Pâ—ony Male and Female doth gently bind with a kind of sweetness it is a little hot but it is dry and of subtil parts it is good for the Falling-Sickness the Root being hung about the Neck and some of the Juice of it given inwardly and is good for the Night-Mare Pepper-wort or Dittander is good for old pains and griefs in Joynts and for Scabs Perwincle is hot in the second degree and somewhat dry and binding it is good to stop Fluxes of Blood and all manner of Bleeding inwardly and outwardly St. Peters-wort is of temperature hot and dry and is of the same Nature as St. Johns-wort but somewhat weaker it purgeth Cholerick Humours helpeth old Pains and Griefs and Burnings by Fire Pimpernel both the sorts of them are of a drying Faculty without biting and somewhat of adrawing Faculty in so much that it will draw forth splints out of the Flesh and purgeth the Head put into the Nostrils they are a great Cleanser of Ulcers and a Sodderer up of Wounds it is good for the Plague and all Venom taken by Venomous Beasts and Mad Dogs it opens the Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen provoketh Urine expelleth the Stone and Gravel the Juice of it cleareth the Sight Ground-Pine or Chamâ—pitys is good for the Strangury and all Diseases of the Liver and Spleen and gently openeth the Body casteth out the dead Foal It is good for all Pains in the Joynts Dropsey Yellows Poison Falling Sickness to cleanse foul Ulcers and to sodder up the Lips of green Wounds Water Plantine is cold and dry of Temperature is good against Burnings or Scauldings and is good to stay Fluxes of Blood Rib-wort Plantine is cold and dry in the second degree as are the other Plantines the Vertues are referred to the kinds of Plantine Land Plantine is of a mixt Temperature for it hath in it a certain waterish colour with a little harshness and coldness and is therefore cold and dry in the second degree the Juice of it is good for all pains in the Bowels and stayeth the Distillation Rheum in the Head and is good for all manner of Fluxes of Blood inwardly taken or outwardly applied it is good for shortness of Breath and Consumption of the Lungs the Seed is good for the Dropsey Falling Sickness Yellows Stoppings of the Liver the distilled water of it is good to cool the hot Inflammation of the Eyes and taketh away the Pin and Web It is good for all manner of Burnings and Scauldings is good for â—ore Mouths and is good for all Ulcers and Cankders it is good for all manner of Scabs Tettars and running Sores and is a very good Wound-Herb either inwardly taken or outwardly applied Polipody of the Oak Polipody of Fern Indian Polipody are dry without biting it purgeth Choler and Phlegm and is good for the Cholick it is good against a Cough shortness of Breath and distillations of thin Rheums upon the Lungs Poppies of all sorts are cold it is a great causer of Sleep it stayeth the Flux of the Belly the Leaves or Heads made with a little Vineger and brought to a Poultess with Barley-meal and Hogs-grease cooleth Inflammations and St. Anthonies Fire Prim or Privet the Leaves and Roots of it are binding and is good to wash sore Mouths to cool Inflammations and to dry up Fluxes and is good for Ulcers in the Mouth and Throat and all Swellings and Impostumes and is good against all Fluxes of the Belly and Stomach and bloody Flux Pepper is hot in the third degree All the sorts of them heateth provoketh Urine digesteth draweth disperseth and cleanseth the dimness of the Sight and is good to be put into Medicaments for the Eyes It is an Expeller of Poison and is good for all diseases of the Breast and Lungs helps Wind is good for the Cholick Pitch is drawn from the Pine-tree by the force of Fire and is the last Running and Tarr is the first which is the thinner it is hot and dry and Tarr more hot and stone Pitch more drying it conglutiuateth and gathereth together Petrolium is a certain Oyl made of Salt Peter and Bitumen and is hot and dry in the second degree healeth Wounds and comforteth weak Members Philonium of which there are two kinds Philonium Romanum and Philonium Persicum and are excellent Positions and most comfortable in the loss of Blood Pomegranat is cold and dry provoketh Urine and is good for the Stomach the Rind Seed or Flowers of them beaten to powder and given stop the Lask and all Issues of Blood Pomecitron the Rind of it is good against all Poisons Q. Queen of the Medows Medow-sweet or Mead-sweet is cold dry and binding and is good for all manner of inward or outward Bleedings It helps the Cholick stayeth the Flux of the Belly healeth old Ulcers Cankers and Fistulaes the distilled water of it is good for the Inflammation of the Eyes R. Radish Horse-Radish and Garden-Radish are hot in the third degree and dry in the second they drive forth the Gravel and Stone out of the Bladder by Urine Horse-Radish is hot and dry in the third degree and hath a drying and cleansing quality It killeth Wormes and being bruised and laid to old Griefs taketh them away and is a Provoker of Urine and likewise good for the Dropsey Rag-wort is called St. James-wort or Stagger-wort is hot and dry in the second degree It cleanseth disgesteth and discusseth The Juice of it is good for Ulcers in the Mouth or Throat for hard Swellings Imposthumations and Quinsey it is good to stay Catarrhs thin Rheums and Distillations from the Head into the Eyes Nose or Lungs the Juice is good to heal all green Wounds and to cleanse and heal all filthy Ulcers in any part of the Body it is good for all Pains and Aches in any part of the Body likewise Rattle-Grass there is two sorts of it the red and they yellow the Red is good to heal up Fistulaes and hollow Ulcers and stay the Flux of Humors to them and other Fluxes of Blood being boiled in red Wine and given The yellow Rattle-grass is good for a Cough and dimness of Sight the Seed being put therein Rest-harrow or Câ—ammoack is
used with Honey It is good for Swellings used with Hogs-grease the distilled water of the Herb or â—uice dropped into the Eyes cleanseth them from Films The Branches of the Vine and the Leaves do cool and mightily bind and stayeth Bleeding in any part of the Body and are good to stop a Lask and bloody Flux the Leaves are put into Lotions for sore Mouths and being put into a Poultess with Barley-Meal cools â—nflammations of Wounds All the Violets are cold and moist while they are fresh and green and will cool any heat and distemper in the Body either inwardly given or outwardly applied Impostumes also and hot Swellings they purge the Body of Cholerick Humors the Powder of the Purple Flower helpeth the Quinsey and Falling Sickness it is good for the Liver Yellows and hot Agues The sorts of Vipers Grass are hot and moist as are the Goats-beards it is very good for the Plague poison of venomous Creatures falling Sickness Of Wall or Vipers Buglâ—ss the several sorts of them are cold and dry of Complexion it is good against the biting of Vipers or any other venomous Beasts and also against poison or any poisonous Herbs the Roots comfort the Heart tempers the Blood allays the hot Fits of Agues Vineger especially if it be of Wine is cold and piercing to wit cold in the first and dry in the third degree it cuts Phlegm Vermilion is a certain Metal drawn from Quick sulphur and Quick-silver it draweth healeth incarnateth bindeth and comforteth Ulcers Verdegrease is hot and dry in the third degree and is a Corrasive that eateth away dead and proud Flesh and is good to be put into Ointments for green Wounds or for the Scratches Green and white Vitriol may be taken inwardly a few drops of it with other things for the Farcin and outwardly applied to take away Wenns or hard Kernels or to eat away a Quitter-bone or Splint or to take off Warts from the hands if you will stay the eating of it or that you will have it eat no further then where you lay it wet all round where you lay it with water you must take it out of the Glass with a Feather or a piece of Silk Tied to a stick for it will eat both Linnen and Woollen The white is the strongest but the green is most safe for any use Vitriola Caleanthum is reckoned amongst Metals and is a kind of Inkey Earth it draweth and fretteth Vitriola Herba is an Herb that groweth on the VVall and is taken for Pellitory on the Wall W. Wall flower or Winter-Gilliflower all the kinds of them are of a cleansing faculty and of thin parts The yellow kind works more powerfully and are of more use in Physick it cleanseth the Blood and freeth the Liver from Obstructions expelleth the Secundine and dead Foal stayeth Inflammations and Swellings comforteth and strengthneth any weak part out of Joynt cleanseth the Eyes from Films and cleanseth also filthy Ulcers in the Mouth and is a good Remedy for all Aches and Pains in the Joynts and Sinews and is good for the Farcin The VVallnut-Tree the Bark of it doth bind and dry very much and the leaves are much of the same Temperature they kill the VVormes in the Belly with other things put to them they help the biting of a mad Dog or the venom or poison of any Creature the Kernels of them when they are old are very Astringent and will stop a Lask the Oyl of the Kernels taken inwardly helpeth the Cholick and expels VVind the distilled water of the green husks before they be ripe is good to cool the heat of Agues as also to resist the Infection of the Plague being applied to the sores it cooleth also the heat of green VVounds and old Ulcers being Bathed therewith Wold Weld or Dyars-weed is hot and dry of Temperature also the whole Herb heats and dries in the third degree it cuts attenuates resolveth opens disgests it is good taken inwardly or applied outwardly against the venom of venomous Beasts as also for the Plague or Pestilence and is good for green Wounds Wheat is hot and dry in the first degree it hath a certain clammy stopping quality the Oyl of it pressed out between two thick Plates of Iron healeth all Tettars and Ring-wormes used warm The green Corn chewed and applied to the place bitten by a mad Dog healeth it Sliced Wheat-bread soaked in Red rose-Rose-water or Spring-water and applied to the Eyes that are hot red and inflamed or blood-shotten helpeth them And hot Bread applied to the Kernels of the Throat healeth the Kernels thereof the Flower of it mixed with the Juice of Henbane stayeth the Flux of Humors to the Joynts and being boiled in Vineger helpeth the shrinking of the Sinews the Flower of it mixed with the Yolk of an Egg Honey and Turpentine doth draw cleanse and heal any Bile Plague-sore or foul Ulcer the Decoction of Wheat-bran is good to Bath those Places that are bursten by a Rupture and the said Bran boiled in Vineger helpeth all Swellings and Inflammations it helpeth the biting of Vipers and all other venomous Creatures Wasers put in water and given stayeth the Lask and bloody Flux The Willow-tree the Leaves Flowers Seed and Bark are cold and dry in the second degree and binding they are used to stay bleeding of VVounds and all other Fluxes of Blood it helpeth to stay all thin hot and sharp distillations upon the Lungs the Leaves bruised with some Pepper is good for the VVind-cholick The water of the VVillow-tree received of a Branch cut is good for dimness of Sight for Films and to stay the Rheumes that fall into them provokes Urine being stopped the Flowers of it boiled in white-VVine hath an admirable faculty in drying up of humors The Bark worketh the same effect VVoad is dry and without sharpness the wilde VVoad drieth more and is more sharp and biting it is so dry and binding that it is hardly fit to be Given inwardly an Ointment made thereof stancheth bleeding and is good in such Ulcers as are bound with moisture for it takes away the corroding and fretting humors it cools Inflammations quenches St. Anthonies Fire and stayeth defluctions of Blood in any part of the Body VVood-bind or Honey-suckles are cleansing consuming and disgesting the Flowers are good for the Lungs provokes Urine helps Cramps Convulsions Palseys and whatsoever Grief comes of Cold or Stopping the Flowers are more effectual then the Leaves the Seed is as effectual as the Leaves Pond-weed doth bind and cool like as doth Knot-grass but his Essence is thicker then that it is good against consuming and eating Ulcers and all hot Inflammations VVormwood is hot and dry in the first degree just as hot as the Blood it remedies Choler provokes Urine helps Surfeits Swellings in the Belly and is the best Herb for the Yellows that is Take of the Flowers of Wormwood Rosemary and black Thorn of each a like quantity half that quantity of
and do this three or four times and it will cure him Another Take of Sanguis Draconis three quarters of an Ounce Bole-armoniack one Ounce Sallet Oyl as much Mastick three Ounces Sewet as much and as much Hogs-grease melt and mix all these together and lay it to the swelling and it will take it away Aâ—other Take one or two Handfuls of Saexafrage and all the Sewet of a Loyn of Mutton and a Pint of white Wine chop the Herb and Mince the Sewet very small and boil them all very well â—ogether then take a good quantity of Horse-dung newly made that goes to Grass and mix with the other Ingredients and work it to a Salve and apply it Plaister-wise hot to the place renewing it every day so long as you think convenient and this is a very excellent Cure Another for the Nether Attaint Take a Piece of Filletting and bind it about the Pastern Joynt pretty hard which will cause the blister or swelling the better to appear then let out the corrupt Jelly with your Incision-Knife and crush it all out then heal it up with your Copperas water and anoint it with the green Ointment Things good in General for the Stavers Head-ach or Farcin To let Blood to hang about his Neek the Root of Amara dulcis the Juice of Sow-Fennel or Hogs Fennel squirted up his Nose or the Seed and Root of Cow-Parsnip boiled in Oyl and his Head anointed therewith The Seeds of Brank-Cresses blown up his Nostrils or Ducks-Meat applied to his Forehead made into a Poultess or his Head Bathed with the distilled water of common Elder taketh it away if it cometh of a cold cause Flea-wort bruised and applied after the same â—anner do h the like so doth Germander and Henbane bruised with Vineger and applied the dust of Tobacco blown up his Head with a large Quill or Kix causeth him to Neese which easeth him from the pain the Root of Pellitory of Spain dried and beaten to Powder and used in the same manner doth the like The Juice of Cellendine put into his Eares or Assa foetida dissolved in Brandy and put into his Eares or Verjuice and Salt put into his Eares or Groundsel and Aqua vitae stamped together and put into his Ears c. Particular Receipts for the Stavers After you have taken Blood from him take the quantity of a Hazel-Nut of sweet Butter and Salt dissolve it in a Sawcer full of white-Wine Vineger then take Lint or fine Flax dipt therein and so stop both his Eares therewith and stitch them up and let it remain there about twelve houres and he will be Cured Another Take of bitter Almonds an Ounce and a half of the Gall of an Ox two drams of black Ellebore made into fine powder a half Penniworth of Grains Castoreum Vineger and Varnish of each five drams boyl all these together till the Vineger be consumed then strain it and put it into his Eares and do as you did before Another Aqua vitae and Garlick so much as will suffice and stamp them together and put into his Ears doing as before Another Take the Seeds of Cressy of Poppy of Smallage of Pursly of Dill the Seeds only of these Herbs and take also Pepper and Saffron of each two drams make them all into fine Powder and put to them of Barley-water two quarts boiling hot from the Fire and â—et it infuse therein three houres and strain it and give him one quart thereof and his Hay sprinkled with water and the next day give him the other quart fasting and let him drink no cold water for four or five days after but only white water unless sometimes a sweet Mash and this will cure him You must Note that in this Disease of the Stavers you must be sure to let him Blood before you give him any Medicine Another After you have sharpned a small and tough Oaken or Ashen stick and made a Notch at one end like a Fork to keep it from Running so far into his Head put it into his Nostrils and Job it up and down to the top of his Head which will cause the Blood to descend freely then in the Morning fasting give him this Drink well brewed together viz. One Ounce of the Powder of Turmerick with as much of the powder of Anniseeds in a quart of strong Beer or Ale with a pint of Verjuice and a quarter of a pint of Brandy and stop his Eares with Aqua vitae and Herb-Grass beaten very well together Put an equal quantity into each Ear and stop Flox or Hurds over it to keep it down and stitch them up with a Needle and Thread and let it remain in for about twenty four houres then unstitch them and pull forth the Hurds and the next day blood him in the Neck and give him his Blood with a handful of Salt put therein well stirred together ro keep it from clotting and he is in a fair way to be cured Things good in general for the Yellows Agrimony Water-Agrimony the Bark of the black Elder Tree Hops Fennel Smallage Endive Succory-Roots Garden-Arrach Orach Asarabacca Ash-tree the Juice of Coleworts the inner Rind of the Barberry Tree or Berry Bay-berries Burr-dock Roots Wood-Bitony Bistort or â—nakeweed Red Beetes Burrage or Bugloss Butchers-broom Calamint or Montanie Mint Camomel Cardus benedictus Celandine the Juice of Cinquefoyl the Juice of Cleavers the seed of Columbines and Saffron boiled together and given him Dandelion Dodder of Thyme Eringo Flax-weed or Toad-Flax the Juice of the Flower-de-luce Fumitory the Fuzz-bush Garlick Gentian Feltwort or Baldmony the seed of Germander Groundsel the Roots of black Hellebore the yellow berries of Ivy Liver-wort Madder Maiden-hair Wall-Rue the seed both of the male and female Mercury Wilde-marjorem Worm-wood Mouse-Ear Hedge-mustardseed Cow Parsnips the Roots of Penny royal the seed of Plantine Bastard-Rubarb or the great round leaved Dock Rupture-wort Sarasens Consound or Sarasens Wound-wort Shepherds Purse the Seeds and Roots of Sorrel Spleen-wort Tamarisk Turmentil or Setfoyl Vervain Ground-Pine Myrrh Ivory or Harts horn Long-Pepper Licoris Anniseeds Ganders or Geese dung Misle-toe white Thorn the Roots of Parsley Pimpernel Chick-weed Sheeps dung steeped in Beer You are to let him blood in the first place A particular Receipt for the Yellows Take an Ouuce of Mithridate and dissolve it in a quart of Ale or Beer and give it him luke-warm But if you have no Mithridate give him two Ounces of London Treacle and for want of that two or three spoonfuls of common Treacle Another particular Receipt for the Yellows Take of Turmerick Burr-dock Roots long Pepper of each about half an Ounce Anniseeds and Licoris in fine Powder and searced of each a spoonful Celandine the Leaves and Roots one handful chopt small and strain the Celandine and put them into a quart of strong Beer and boyl them a little on the Fire and in the Cooling sweeten it with London-Treacle and put into it a
in short time he will be well and sound again Another very good Boars or Barrows dung dried and beaten to Powder and a spoonful of it with aboat two Thimblefuls of the powder of Brimstone put into a quart of warm Milk and given him fasting in the Morning for four or five times resting a day between each taking to recruit his spirits will very much help if not altogether cure him If you find that this Drink does not make him sick you may give him a larger Proportion not exceeding two spoonfuls Some of the general Things for this Distemper mixed amongst his Provender will further it very much Things good in general for shortness of Breath Pursiness or Preservers of the Wind. Saffron Wood-bitony Butter-burr Colts-foot Elecampane Fennel Anniseeds the â—uice of Sow-Fennel dissolved in Wine and put into an Egg and given him Hore-hound Juniper berries Lung-wort that groweth upon Oaks or Beeches which is a kind of Moss with grayish tough leaves Horse Lung-wort the Roots of Marsh-mallows the Roots of Master-wort Hedge Mâ—stard-seed the seeds of Cow-Parsnips Pellitory of the Wall the Juice or Seeds of Purslain Roâ—a Solis or Sun-dew Scabeus the Milk of Sow-Thistles given in Wine or Beer Vervain Antimony Southern-wood the Kernels of Grapes the Blood of a sucking Pig Venus Hair Ireos Ashen Skies Fennegreek Raisins Pepper Almonds Burrage Nettle-seeds Aristolochia Coloquintida Powder of Gentian Nutmâ—gs Cloves Gallingal Graines of paradice Calamint Hounds-tongue Filapendula or Drop-wort Tyme the Root of Valerian boiled with Liquoris Raisins and Anniseeds and given him Caraway seeds white-Wine and Yolks of Eggs the Juice of VVater-cresses Frankincense a Snake boiled and the Broth given him Agarick Cardamum Lightwort Angelica the green Bark of Elder Tree red Mints red Fennel primrose leaves Brimstone salt Nitre Balm Violet leaves Hysop the Lungs of a Fox boiled or laid in Rose water ordry them and beat them to powder and give him them in Beer or strow them amongst his provender Bay-berries white Hawthorn leaves the Guts of a hedge-Hog dried and beaten to powder and boiled in Beer and given â—or mixed amongst his provender with Anniseeds and Liquoris or wet his Hay with water and his Oats with Ale or Beer Oyl of Frankincense Fern Roots Night-shade Cassia Mithridate Diacartamus Sâ—ne Aloes French Beanes enlarge the Beast much the powder of Feather few given him in Ale or Beer is also very good c. Particular Receipts for shortness of Breath or Pursiveness or Preservers of the Wind. Take Anniseeds Liquoris and Sugar-candy all beaten into very fine powder and take four spoonfuls thereof and brew it well in a pint of white VVine and half a pint of Sallet Oyl and use this ever after your Horses Travel and a day before he is travell'd Another Take Wheat Flower four pounds Elecampane and Gentian of each an ounce Anniseeds Fennegreek Cummin Brimstone and Liquoris of each half a pound make them all into very fine powder and sâ—arced then put into it of common English Honey half a pound and so much white Wine as will make all these into a Cataplasm Boyl them till they become so thick that they are fit to make up into Balls and give him three or four at a time for six or eight Mornings together use it often for it will keep him in health and make him â—ound of his Body Wind and Courage But if you do perceive a Taint in his Wind then Take a close â—arthâ—n Pot and put thereunto three pints of the strongest Wine vineger and four new laid Eggs unbroken and four Heads of Garlick clean pilled and bruised then cover the Pot very close and bury it in a dunghil thirteen houres then take it up and take forth the Eggs and use it as you do the â—ame Receipt before-recited Things good in general for the Glanders Cummin seeds Grains of Paradice Fennegreek Diahexaple Sallet Oyl Aquavitae the Bark of Elder Sugar candy Garlick Urine white-Wine Bay salt Liquoris Anniseeds Hogs Grease boiled in water and take the Fat off Ginger Yolks of Eggs Saffron Cloves Cinnamon Nutmegs Moss boiled in Milk Cardamonium Spikenard of Lavender Gallingale Honey Euphorbium Pepper Brimstone Spikenard of Spain Myrrh Iris Illyrica Smallage Penny royal Aristolochia Salt water Oyl of Oats Tanners Oyl Auripigimentum and Tussiâ—aginis beaten into powder four drams of each beaten with Turpentine and make them into little Cakes then put them upon a Chafing-dish of Coals and a Tunnel put over it so let him take the Perfume of it up his Nose Agarick Gentian Bay-berries Hore-hound Gumma Guiatum Amber Coral Arkanet Black-berries the dust of Oaken Bark Bramble-leaves Knot-grass wilde Dazie Roots Muscadine Figs Elecampané Treacle Box leaves Coals of Ashen wood quenched in Ale and poured down his Nose Particular Receipts for the Glanders The first thing that is to be done in this Disease is to let him blood then for four or five days together give him scalded Bran which will dry up his moist and bad humors abounding in him and prepare him the sooner for his Cure Take Honey as much as will suffice and mingle it with his Oats rubbing the Oats and the Honey together betwixt your Hands so as the Honey may be very well mixed with your Oats continue him with this manner of Feeding Morning and Evening till you find him leave Running at the Nose This Receipt de Grey declares he hath Cured very many Horses with Another Take Sallet Oyl and white VVine Vineger of each six spoonfuls beat them well together and put it into both his Nostrils if they both run and continue this three Mornings together and presently after you have given him this Medicine you are to put it up into that Nostril that runs a long Goos feather dipped in Oyl de bay stirring it up and down in his Nostrils which will cause him to sneeze and snuff so that the viscous corruption which remaineth in his Head may void Keep him warm all the let his Drink be sweet Mashes Auother Take new made Chamberly and of the best and strongest white Wine Vineger of each half a Pint then take of Mustard-seed two or three spoonfuls and make Mustard thereof with Vineger and let it be very well ground that done put your Vineger and Chamberly to the Mustard and stir them well together then take of Tarr and Bay-salt of each alike incorporate them well together and convey so much thereof as three Egg-shells will hold the Meat first taken forth and having first prepared these things let the Horse be taken forth of the Stable being kept that Night to a very spare Diet and ride him first till he begin to sweat then give him the three Egg-shells fill'd with the said Tarr and Salt and throw down presently after it a Hornfull of the Chamberly Vineger and Mustard and a half Horn of it at each Nostril then ride him again as you did before then cloath him warm and litter him well and let
him stand upon the Trench until three or four of the Clock then give him a warm Mash and order him as you do Horses in Physick Give him this Medicine every other or third day three or four times and you shall find it an infallible Cure Before you use this Medicine you must prepare his Body with Bran prepared and after with a Glyster and your Goose-feathers Another Take better then two handfuls of the Cankerous Moss which groweth upon an old Oaken Pale and boyl it in two quarts of Milk to one then strain it and squeeze the Moss well and give it him luke-warm to drink then take two Goose-feathers and take as much sweet Butter as contains a Wall-nut and with the powder of Brimstone finely beaten and sâ—arced work them well together with your Knife till the Butter be brought to a high Gold Colour Then take two Feathers the longest you can get in a Gooses wing and first at the Quills end with a Needle fasten two long threads then with your Salve anoint your Feathers all over which done rowl them well in the powder of Brimstone and thrust them up into his Head then fasten the thread on the top of the Horses Head and ride him abroad for an hour or two Airing him in this manner Morning and Evening and when he hath stood a pretty while in the Stable after you have brought him home again untie the threads and draw forth the Feathers and wiping them very dry lay them up till you have next occasion to use them This Disease cometh not suddenly but grows out of long process of time and therefore the Cure must be done by leisnre therefore you must continue the Medicine as your leisure will serve either every day or at the least thrice a week if it be for four or five Months together and be sure it will in the end yield your desire Another which will Cure any high Running Glanders called the Mourning of the Chine Take Elecampane Roots and boyl them in Milk till they be soft that you may bring them to Pap then with a Horn give them to the Horse with the Milk luke-warm being no more then will make the Roots liquid and having anointed your Goose-feathers use him and ride him as you did before Another Take of Agri-pigimentum and of Tussilaginis beaten into powder of each four drams then beating them with fine Turpentine bring them into a Paste then make them up into little Cakes as broad as a Groat and dry them Then lay two or three of them on a Chafing-dish of Coals and cover them with a Tunnel so that the smoke may come up onely at the end thereof and so without auy loss ascend up into the Horses Head through his Nostrils then Ride him till he begin to sweat this do once every Morning before water till the Running be stopped which will be in a very short space considering the greatness of this Disease Another After you have purged him two days before give him this Drink Take of Tanners Owes new made wherein never came Hides one pint of Sallet Oyl four spoonfuls two Heads of Garlick pilled and bruised Feathersew and Sellandine of each one handful chopped very small Anniseeds and Licoris and Bay-berries all finely pulverized of each one spoonful boyl all these a little and give it him blood-warm twice a week fasting and being thus four times drenched will be perfectly cured which seldom or never fails The best Receipt for this Disease is in my First Part. Another Take Cummin-seeds Grains of Paradice and Fennegreek in powder of each half an Ounce of Diahexaple a quarter of an Ounce beat this in a Mortar with a quarter of a pint of Verjuice three spoonfuls of Sallet-Oyl and two spoonfuls of Aqua vitae then put altogether to a quart of old Ale with a good slice of sweet Butter and set it on the Fire till it be ready to boyl then being luke-warm give it him part at his Mouth and part at both Nostrils then ride him pretty roundly for an hour and set up warm let him fast an hour and if you perceive Sicknes to grow give him a pint of new Milk Another for the Glander Keep the Horse fasting for four or five houres then give him this Drink here under written viz. Ten Cloves of Garlick peeled and bruised half a handful of Oaken Moss and one handful of Pollipody of the Oak boyl all these together upon a gentle Fire in three Pints of new Milk till half be consumed then strain out the Milk from the Moss and other Ingredients and put into it three quarters of an Ounce of the powder of Elecampane Roots one Ounce of the Floure of Brimstone half an Ounce of the Juice of Spanish Liquoris and half an Ounce of the powder of Fennegreek well mixt together Then take two handfuls of the innermost Bark of green Elder and boyl it in a quart of Spring water till more then half be consumed then strain it forth and pour it into the other Ingredients and stir them well together and give it him lukewarm some at his Mouth and some at his Nose exceed not above a pint of it at a time warm him very well after it but bring him home cool and Cloath and Litter him up warm and let him fast three or four houres after it and Order him as you do sick Horses with Mashes of Malt boiled Oats and white Water c. Observations upon it This Disease is very difficult and hard to Cure and therefore you must not think that once or twice giving it will get 〈◊〉 Conquest over this sturdy Disease but it must be the work of a longer time a Month or more at least viz. Give it him two or three days together and intermit a day or two between to recruit his spirits and so continue it till you have recovered him But the best and most certain Receipt for the Cure of this filthy and lothsom Disease is by a Receipt at the latter end of the Book which I Refer you principally unto vide Tâ—e best Receipts for the Cure of the Glanders Another to stay it for a time being incurable Take the green Bark of Elder and beat it in a Mortar and strain it till you have a pint thereof Then put that Juice to a pint of old Ale and warm it on the Fire with a good Lump of sweet Butter and an Ounce of Sugar candy and so give it lukewarm ride him after it and let him fast an hour and keep him warm do thus divers Mornings If you are minded to take a general Receipt to Cure all Colds Glanders Heart sickness and to purge away molten Grease Look in the First Part for Bâ—lls Cordial to Cure any c. Things good in General given inwardly to a Hide-bound Horse White-wine Sallet Oyl Venice Turpentine Mithridate Loaf sugar Cassia prepared milk of sweet Almonds Verjuice given him Muscadine strong Ale Grunfel Rue Smallage
a Splint Take of the Oyl of Vitriol and dip a stick or feather into the Glass and touch the place with it and it will eat it away If you find it eat too much you may stop it by bathing it with cold water Or if you boyl some green Copperas in water and wash the sore with it it will not only cleanse the Sore from any piece of the remaining Splint but soon heal it up likewise To take away a Splint and leave no Scar behind Take a red Hazel stick about the bigness of your Thumb about a quarter of a yard long and after you have beaten and knockt the Splint very well with it then take and cut one end of it very smooth and stick a Needle into the pith of it leaving so much of the point of it out as will prick through the Skin pricking it full of holes then take some of the Oyl of Peter and rub all over it and bath it in with a hot Fire-shovel and do thus four or five days together and it will cure it Another First wash the place with warm water and shave away the hair then slit a Hole in the skin more then the length of a Barley-corn and then convey into the Hole so much Arsnick in the fourth part of a Hazel-Nut and bound on with a Bolster and Rowler of Linnen and made fast with a Needle and Thread and so let it remain for three whole days and Nights in which time the Arsnick wâ—â—l eat and corrode clean away the Splint then to kill the Fire anoint the place with sweet fresh Butter eight or ten days after being first molten and it will be whole Another Take the Root of Elecampane well washed and cleansed and lap it in a brown Paper wet it and roast it in the hot Embers as you do a Warden then after you have rubbed and chaâ—ed the Excression bind it fast on but not so hot as to scauld away the hair this will consume it away in two or three dressings or if you anoint the Splint with the Oyl of Origanum Morning and Evening it will take it away but not presently Observation You must stay the falling down of new humours to the place troubled by binding Plaisters as Pitch Rozin Mastick red Lead Oyl Bole-armonâ—ack and such like then to draw forth matter which is gathered with drawing Simples as VVax Turpentine and such like And lastly to dry up the Relicks with drying powders as Honey and Lime Oyster-shells Soot and such like and also you must know that all Splints Spavens or Knobs must either be taken away at the beginning or after the full of the Moon Another Receipt to take off a Splint which though it seem difficult yet de Grey declares that he hath taken off more then 100 Splinâ—s Take two Heads of Garlick and peel them and cut them small and do neither stamp nor bruise them then take the like quantity of Salt and mix with them and divide them into two equal parts and put them into two fine Linnen Clouts and bind them upon the ends of two sticks about a foot in length of the fashion of two short wooden foyls but not so long being not above twelve inches a piece Take then your Blood-stick and rub knock and beat the splint therewith very well to soften it then prick it through the skin with your Blood-staff and Fleam then take of the Oyl of Nuts one pint and put it into a small Pipkin and set it upon the Fire with a Chasing-dish of Coals and make it boiling hot and when it is ready to boyl put in your short sticks or â—oyles which hath the Garlick and Salt fastned unto them and first with the foyl and then with the other I mean by turnes apply them hot to the Splint and between whiles rub and stroak the Splint downwards with your Thumb whereby to bring forth the Blood till having with the foyls very well mollified the said Splint you may the more easily crush forth the Blood whereof the Splint is engendred and formed and thus it is cured only you must remember to anoint the place two or three times after with sweet or fresh Butter Things good in general for a Curb Oyl of Vitriol Arsnick Verdegrease an Elecampane Root roasted and laid to it an Onyon roasted with unslackt Lime and laid to it Mercury Turpentine Nerval green Gopperas Tartar c. Particular Receipts to Cure a Curb First shave away the hair then bind the Hough strait above the Joynt then with a small stick beat rub and Chaâ—e the Curb like as you do in the Cure of a Splint then pierce the skin with your Fleam in two or three places and so with your Thumb thrust forth and crush out the corrupt Blood and after convey so deep as you can get into every hole the bigness of two Barley cornes of Arsnick and so bind up the place and let it remain for the space of twenty four houres then open the place and anoint it every day with fresh Butter till it be whole Oyl of Vitriol used as you do to take away a Splint will take off a Curb also Note that whatsoever Cureth the Splint or Spaven Cureth the Curb also Another Receipt Take white-Wine Lees one Pint a Porringer-full of Wheat Floure of Cummin in fine powder half an Ounce mix all these well together and being made warm upon the Fire charge the place therewith renewing it once for three or four days together and when the swelling is almost gone draw it with your hot Iron and charge the Burning with Pitch and Rosin molten together which must be applied warm to the end the Charge may stick on the better then presently clap on Flox and let it remain until it fall away of it self and let it come in no wet or water for the space of fourteen days Another Take a Bar of Iron heat it red hot and hold it near to the place till it become warm then with your Fleam prick six or seven holes through the skin and anoint the Sorrance with Nerval then take a spoonful of salt and a penny weight of Verdegrease in â—ine powder with the white of an Egg incorporate them well together and wet some Flax in this Medicine and bind it to the place renewing it every day once and in a short time he will be perfectly â—uâ—ed Or to â—alcinate Tartar and dissolve it in water and congeal it like Salt and mingle it with Soap like an Ointment and dress it therewith and this will in fourty houres heal any Mules Pains and Scratches whatsoever Things good for the Mules vide Scratches Things good for the Pains vide Scratches Things good for Kib'd Heels vide Scratches Things good for Crepances and Rats-tails vide Scratches What Cures the Scratches Cures all these Diseases Things good in general for the Scratches These things boiled in Hogs Grease and Train-Oyl viz. Tarr white Lead Bolâ—armoniack Verdegrease green
the Sore you cleanse wash and inject the Wound with this water A Water to wash and cleanse a Sore or VVound before you use the Ointment above Take red Sage Plantain Rib-wort Yarrow Bramble-leaves Rosemary Hysop and Honey-suckle leaves of each half a handful boyl them in one Pint of white-Wine and as much of Smiths or Cold Trough water then add thereto the boyling of common Honey one spoonful and as much Allom as a Wall-nut and a bright black piece of a Sea coal the bigness of an Egg unbroken then let it boyl till half be consumed then strain it hard and wash the Sore therewith and if the Wound be deep inject of this Water with a Syringe into it every day when you dress him and by this doing you shall cleanse the Wound and take away all bad and dead flesh and heal it up soundly Another Water to cleanse and heal a Sâ—re To a Gallon of Smiths Water and a quart of Ale add two Handfuls of Sage a Pint of Honey an Ounce of common Allum and half an Ounce of white Copperas boyl them very well together till they be all consumed and put them into a clean Vessel and keep them for your use Dr take Spring-water and put to it Roch-Allum and Madder and boyl them till they be both consumed and put them up for your use Or take Sage Cinquefoyl and Fennel of each a good handful and boyl them in a Gallon of Spring-water till they be tender then strain the Liquor from the Herbs and put to it a quarter of a pound of Roch-Allum and let it boyl again a little while till the Allum be dissolved then take it from the Fire and make use of it after this manner viz. Dip Lint in it warm and lay it upon the Sore and if it be hollow apply more Lint Then make a Bolster of Linnen Cloth and wet it well in the Water then wring out the Water and bind on the Bolster close A Receipt for a Puncture or green Wound If it be in the Foot or any other part of the Body if you can come well unto it or if it be an Imposthumation unbroken scald it first with this Medicine Then wash it with the Water above Medicâ—ne Take red Tarr a penniworth of the reddest and best of Hogs grease half a pound of green Copperas and Bay-salt of each a handful both made into fine Powder boyl all these very well and with a Clout fastned upon a stick apply it scaulding hot four Mornings together for this scaulding doth so kill the Malice of the Fistula that it can never break to annoy the Horse any further It Careth the Imposthumes and â—oul Ulcers being thus applied Things gâ—od to take a VVen or any other Excression arising in the Flesh or hard Swellings Balm used with Salt taketh away the hard Swellings in the Throat or Wâ—ns or Kernels therein The Decoction of the lesser Sellendine wonderfully Cureth all hard Wens or Tumors applied to them The seed of Darnel Pigeons dung Sallet-Oyl and the Powder of Linseed boâ—led to the form of a Plaister consumeth them the Seed of Turn-Sole laid upon them Archangel or rather the Hedge-Nettle stamped with Vineger and applied as a Poultess taketh away any hard Swelling and also fiery hot Inflammations To Tie a double Thread about it to eat it off then with your Incision-Knife cut it a cross in four equal parts or quarters to the very bottom but beware you touch not either Vein or Sinew then with Oyl of Vitriol eat it away or with Mercury or else burn them off with your hot Iron then heal the place with your green Ointment The Leaves of Bucks-horn bruised and applied will consume them The Milk that issueth out of the Fig-Tree Branches when they are broken and applied is also very good so is the Juice of Housleek or Mercury the Juice of the Leaves and Flowers of Mullein with the Powder of the dried Root rubbed upon them taketh them away The Water that droppeth from the hollow places of the Poplaâ—-Tree anointed with it doth the like Garden-Rue bruised with a few Myrtle-leaves made with Wax and applied taketh away all sorts of them so doth an Ointment made of the burnt Ashes of the Willow-Tree mixed with Vineger and the place anointed therewith c. Things good to Cure an Anbury which is a great spungy Wart full of Blood To Tie it about with a Thread or Hair so hard as you can pull it and in few days it will fall away of it self then strew upon it the Powder of Verdegrease to kill it at the Root and heal it up again with your green Ointment But if it be so flat that you cannot bind any about it then take it away with your Incision-Knife close to the Skin or else burn it off with a hot Iron and then first kill the Fire with Turpentine and Hogs Grease molten together and heal it up as before prescribed but if it grow in such a Sinewy place that it cannot be conveniently cut away with a hot Iron then eat it out with the Oyl of Vitriol and heal it up as you do other Wounds Head Purged Vide Perfumes in the First Part. Things good for to put in Ointments and Salves for the Cure of all manner of Wounds in General The Juice of ordinary Centaury is good to cleanse Old Sores and to heal â—p Wounds the Juice of the leaves of Cleavers do close up the Lips of green Wounds or the powder of the Seed of the Herb doth the same Clowns Wound-wort Coral-wort Cole-wort the powder of the Root of Sow-Fennel or Hogs-Fennel Fox-gloves Golden-rod Winter-green True love or one Berry Hounds tongue St. Johns-wort Kidney-wort Knape-weed Ladie Mantle is the best Wound-Herb that is and is good for inward and outward Wounds Loosestrifâ— The dryed leaves of Medlers strewed upon a Wound healed it quickly Money wort or the Herb two pence The Juice of Nettles is good to wash a Wound with and if it be bound to it but three days you need no other Medicine Pimpernel Ground-pine Plantine Rag-wort wâ—ld Sage Sarasens Consound Solomons Seal Sanicle Burnet Saxafrage Scabius Self heal Southern-wood the Juice of wild Tansie Tutsan Vervain Blew-bottle Elder Couch-grass or Dogs-grass Daffadil Cranes-bill Comfrey doth so Conglutinate things together that it is reported that it will sodder Meal together being cut into pieces and put into the Pot Celandine Broom Turpentine Mastick Frankincense Balsom the leaves of Elm Flix-weed is good for Ulcers and VVounds Byfoyl Costmary Cowslips Cross-wort Yarrow is good for Fistulaes and Ulcers c. Particular Receipts for Salves or Ointments for VVounds Old or New Take common Honey and Verdegrease finely pulverized of each as much as will suffice boyl them together till the Medicine wax red and this will heal up any Old or green Sore in short space Another Take Turpentine black Soap Hogs-grease green Treat and Pitch a like quantity mix and boyl them
Bursa-pastoris Bugle Chervil Mallows Solomons Seal Sarasens Consound Sarasens Wound-wort Scabius Self-heal Sanicle Sope-wort Thorough-wax Rosin Turpentine Honey Galbanum St. Johns-wort Pitch c. The Juice of Arsmart consumeth all cold Swellings and dissolveth all congealed Blood got by Bruises Strokes or Falls The Root of Cinquefoyl Cud-weed or Cotton-weed doth the like Osmond-royal or Water-Fern is also good Golden Rod outwardly applied is good for them Nep or Catmint bruised and the Juice given inwardly is also very good The Decoction of Wood Sage is a very good Remedy for any inward Vein broken to disperse and avoid the congealed Blood and to consolidate the Veins Sanicle is also good The powder of Bolearmomack given in warm Ale stops any inward Bleeding the powder of Irish Slate given also in warm Ale is good for any inward Bruise whatsoever c. Particular Receipts for the Cure of Bruises or Swellings First Ripen it with Hay boiled in Chamberly or with rotten Litter laid upon it then let out the Corruption then fill the hollowness with the powder of Rosin and lay a Plaister of Shoomakers Wax over it and thus do once a day while it be whole if it be slow of skinning or healing up strew on the powder of unslackt Lime and Bolearmoniack mixt together and if any proud Flesh arise take it down either with burnt Allom or Verdegrease in powder Another Take Ale or Beer Yest and Verjuice and putting a little fine Hay thereunto boyl them well together then bind the Hay to the swelling and pour on the Liquor and do thus three or four days together and it will take away the swelling or rotten Litter and Hay boiled in Urine will take it away Another for any inward Bruise by Fall or otherwise Take near a quart of strong Beer or Ale and put to it one Ounce of the powder of Bolearmoniack and half an Ounce of the powder of Irish Slaâ—e and boyl it a little and give it him fasting in the Morning for three or four Mornings together lukewarm and he will do well Another for a Swelling upon the Head occasioned by a Blow or oâ—herwise If the Swelling be on both sides then Blood on both sides but if it be but on one side then Blood but on that side the Swelling is of and give him this Drink viz. One Ounce of Anniseeds one Ounce of Turmerick half an Ounce of Bayberries all beaten to powder with a Gill full of the Juice of Herb-grace red Sage and Wormwood Put all this into a quart of strong Beer lukewarm and give it him fasting in the Morning and Order him as you do a Horse that hath had Physick 'T is good also to apply this outward application to it viz. a little common Soap put to a quarter of a Pint of Brandy and rub and chase it in with your Hand very well and heat it in with a hot Fire-shovel Leave it as thick upon the Swelling as you can This will prevent a Farcy which Blows and Strokes do commonly breed and is also very good for any old or new Swelling whatsoever Another which will take away any Crusty Knobs or hard Swellings in any part of the Body of a Horse According to the Cure you are to undertake whether great or small proportion Oyl of Turpentine and strong Beer or Ale and let it be of equal parts alike well shaked together in a Glass and then rub and chafe it very well in with your Hand and heat it also in with a hot Fire-shovel and two or three days after apply a Charge of common Soap and Brandy well chafed in as you did the Turpentine before You may if you please put in a little of the Oyl of Wormes which is a great Mollifier of any Crusty hard or Bony part If you will see more of this kind vide Observations upon Bruises and Strains about three Leaves further Things good in General to Cure Swelled Legs Nerve Oyl black Soap and Boars Grease melted together and anoint the place with it or to Bathe his Legs in Butter and Beer or in Vineger and Butter melted together or with Sheeps-foot Oyl or with Train Oyl or with Piss and Salt Peter boiled together and to rowl his Legs with Hay-Ropes wet in the same Liquor from the Pastern to the Knee but not bind them too hard or to Bathe him with the water wherein had been boiled Sage Mallows and Rose Cakes and Butter and Sallet Oyl put into it or to take Frankincense Rosin fresh Grease of each alike boiled and strained and used once a day as you see occasion Or to Wash his Legs with the coldest Fountain-Water you can get or to let him stand every day till the Swelling be asswaged in running Water up to the Knees Or else take Primrose-leaves Violet leaves Straw-berry Leaves of each a handful boyl them in new Milk till they be soft then put into it of Nervel of Petroleum and of Pumpilion of each an Ounce anoint him with it for five or six days together Or take Pitch Virgins Wax Rosin the Juice of Hysop Galbanum Myrrh secondary Bdellium Arabicum Populeon and Storax according to your Discretion and boyl them in Deers Sewet and when it is cold put into it Bolearmoniack and Costus beaten into fine powder and incorporate them well together into the other Ingredients and boyl them all over again and when it is almost cold work them up into Rowls and when you use it spread it upon a Plaister and wrap it about the Swelling and let it stay there till it drop off of it self this is good for a Surfeit To Asswage the Swelling of a Horses Legs that is very much Swelled by reason of the Scratches Take a quart of Chamberly or more as you shall think fit and put into it a handful of Bay-Salt a quarter of a pound of Soap a pretty quantity of Soot a good handful of Misle-toe chopt boyl them all very well together and Bath his Legs with it very warm two or three times a day and wrap a Cloth wet in the same and lap about it and this will asswage them If you will have more Receipts for swelled Legs see the first Part for Plaisters and Baths for swelled Legs Things good to Cure a Horse that is Spuâ—-gall'd or Shackle-Gall'd or Lock-Gall'd Salt and Urine mixt together or Salt and Water and the place bathed with it takes out Venom warm Vineger is likewise good or else bind unto the place the tender tops of Nettles stamped Oyl of Turpentine is good or Allom and green Copperas boiled in Water and wash the place with it the leaves of Briony stamped and bruised with Vineger and applied to the Place Honey and Verdegrease boiled together till it look red and anoint the place with it twice a day and strow upon it some chopt Flox to keep on the Salve is very good for Shackle-galls and chiefly for the Scratches c. Things good in General to
Clip them away with a Pair of Scissers and let them Bleed then prick them in the Palate of the Mouth with your Fleam and wash the place with Wine Vineger Bolearmoniack and Salt and see that no Hay dust stick upon the Place Clipped and he will be well again Several Receipts for the Canker in the Mouth Nose or in any other Part of the Body For the Canker in the Mouth or Nose take white-Wine half a pint Roch-Allom the quantity of a Wall-nut Bay-salt half a spoonful English-Honey one spoonful Red-Sage Rue Rib-wort Bramble-leaves of each alike much boyl these in the white-Wine so much as will suffice till a quarter be consumed and inject this water into the sorrance or if it be in the Mouth wash the place with a Clout fastned to a stick and dress him therewith twice a day or oftener as you shall see â—it till it be whole Another for the Nose or Mouth or any other place Take the Juice of Plantine as much Vineger and the same weight of the powder of Allum and with it anoint the sore twice or thrice a day and it will kill it and Cure it Another Take of Ginger and Allum of each alike made into fine powder mixing them well together till they be very thick like a Salve and after you have washed it very well with Allum-water or Vineger anoint it with this Salve and in twice or thrice dressing it will be killed Things good in General for the Canker The Herb Fluellen stamped and the Juice given inwardly or applied outwardly healeth the most spreading and eating Cankers and Ulcers and fretting Sores Sage Plantine Rosemary Honey Allum Verdegrease green and white Copperas Brimstone Tansie Bay-salt Bramble-leaves Elder Ginger the Roots of Asphodil quick Silver Arsnick Agrimony made up with Hogs-grease Cureth old Cankers and inveterate Ulcers Allum Honey and Verdegrease mixed together is good the Decoction of white Beets in Water is good for Running Sores Ulcers and Cankers in the Head Legs or other Parts of the Body the Decoction of the leaves of the Burr-dock c. Another Excellent Cure for the Cure of the Canker in the Head Face or Eyâ—s c. Take three Ounces of Burgundy Pitch and half a pint of Sallet Oyl and put them into a large Earthen new Pipkin and set them over a soft Fire and let them Simper gently keeping them stirring while they are on the Fire to incorporate them the better Your Pipkin must be the larger by reason that you are to put in Verdegrease which is of that fieâ—y Nature that it will make it quickly rise and boyl over if you have not a special care thereof After you have boiled it near a quarter of an hour put to it one Ounce of the Oyl of Turpentine and as much of the Powder of Verdegrease as will lie upon a six-pence finely powdered and searc'd through a Lawn Sieve boyl them also a little while together then take it off the Fire and put it into a Gally-pot and keep it till you have occasion to use it Directions to know whether it be well or ill made If it be vell boiled it will be neither too thick nor too thin but in the condition of an Ointment and of a very good green Colour But if it be too much boiled your Verdegrease will turn it of a red Colour which will be so prejudicial to your Salve that it will lose the healing quality thereof Directions how to use it If you use it for a Canker in his Nose you are to Tie a Linnen Rag upon the end of a stick and dip it in Wine Vineger and Salt or Verjuice and Salt mixed together and put it â—p into his Nostrils and rub and scrub off the scabs and filth that you find therein When you have thus washed and cleansed it take the longest Goose-feather you can get and if it be not long enough to reach to the top of his Nostrils Tie it to the end of a small stick and dip it into the Salve and use it as before once a day and he will do well If you find it on his Head Face or Eyes you must do the like viz. to rub and scrub off the scabs till they Bleed and lay on some of your Salve with a Feather and strew some Wheat-Bran upon it to make it keep on the better You are to dress it once a day till you find it heal and then once in two or three days is enough Observaâ—ion The quickest and speediest Way for to effect all outward Cures is to let him stand in the House during his Cure Things good to Kill Wormes in General Alheal Alkanet Water Agrimony the leaves of Bistort or Snake-weed the powder of the Root of Butter-Bur the Seed of Sea Coâ—ewort bruised and given in Beer the powder of ordinary small Centaury the powder of the Root call'd Devils Bit Elecampane the powder of Fern-Roots the Juice of Flix-weed Gentian Feltwort or Baldmony Germander Hops beaten to Powder and given him the powder of Horehound Knotgrass Groundsel Savin Brimstone Allom Salt Mother-wort the Bark of the Root of the Mulberry-Tree Nettleseeds the powder of the leaves of the Peach tree the powder of Plantine Horse-Radish Wild-Rotchet Rupture-wort Southern-wood Vervain the Bark of the Wallnut-tree or the powder of the green shells Wormwood dried and beaten and given Tansie seed the white Beete sodden with Garlick Mercury Calcin'd Alloes blak Soap Taâ—ners Ouze his own Hair chopped small and given him in his Provender Rue Soot the warm Guts oâ— a new slain Hen or Chicken rowled up in Salt and Brimstone and given him Elder-berries sodden in Milk Chalk Fennegreek Bay-berries Turmerick Worm-seed Garlick Hens dung Saffron Mint Sage Rozin Juniper berries the green Branches of Sallow or Willow given him Reeds so much of Sublimaâ—um as will lie upon two pence workt up in Butter and given him Stone-crop Quick-silver crude or mortified with the Juice of Lemons c. Particular Receipts for the â—ots or Wormes Take a quart of new Milk and as much Honey as will extraordinarily sweet then give it him in the Morning luke-warm having fasted all the night before and let him â—ast after it two houres then take a Pint of Beer and dissolve into it a good spoonful or more of black Sope and being well mixed together give it him then ride and chase him a little and let him fast another hour and the Wormes will avoid Another more Easie Take Savin chopped and stamped small a good handful warmed in a quart of Beer and given him luke-warm or a quart of Brine given him is very good Another Take as much Precipitate alias red Mercury Calcin'd as will lie upon a Silver two-pence and work it into a piece of sweet Butter the bigness of a small Wall-Nut in the manner of a Pill then lape it all over again with Butter and make it as big as a small Egg and give it him Fasting in a Morning
Southernwood of Parsley an Ounce of Rue three Ounces of Spittle-wort and Hysop of each two Ounces of Cassia which is like Cinnamon one Ounce beat all these into fine powder and with Chalk and strong Vineger work them to a paste of which paste make little Cakes and dry them in the shadow and dissolve some of them in a pint and a half of Barley Milk or for want of that that Juicâ— which is called Crimor or Pâ—isane and give it him to drink and it doth not only Cure the bloody Flux but being given with a quart of warm Water healeth all grief and paiâ— either in the Belly or Bladder which cometh for want of staling Another Take Red Wine three pints half a handful of the Herb called Bursa Pastoris or Shepherds purse and as much Tanners bark taken out of the Fat and dried boyl them in the Wine till somwhat more then a Pint be consumed then strain it hard and give it him luke-warm to drink if you add to it a little Cinnamon it will be the better or to dissolve into a pint of Red Wine four Ounces of the Conserve of Sloes and give it him to drink either of the Medicines are sufficient Another most Excellent Receipt which is infallible for the Cure of the Bloody Flux or any other Scouring whatsoever Take three pints of new Milk and dissolve in it over a gentle Fire four or five Ounces of Issing-Glass which when it is thoroughly dissolved it will so thicken the Milk that it will look like unto Cream After you have so done pour or strain it forth through a very course Sieve to take out the dross and dregs of the Issing glass that will remain behind undissolved and give it him luke-warm in the Morning fasting and at twice or thrice giving it will Cure him at farthest 'T is also a very great Strengthner of Nature When the Issing-glass is dissolved and the dregs strained and poured from the Milk there will not be above a quart of it which is quantity enough to give him at a time To make your Issing-glass dissolve the freer and better bruise it first in a Mortar and then take it in pieces which if it be right and good it will Flake off like unto a Wafer and be Transparent Issing-glass is not much unlike in form and shape unto a white Pudding The Price of it you may find in the Table of the Prices of Drugs 'T is very good also to be given to a weak Horse to strengthen and make him lusty Things good in General for the Falling of the Fundament To anoint it with Oyl of Roses or warm Red-Wine if it be not inflamed and put it up again but if it be bath it with a Spunge dipt in the Decoction of Mallowes Chamomel and Dill mingled together to asswage the Swelling and put it up again with your warm hand and bath the Tuel about with Red-Wine wherein hath been sodden Acatium Galls Acornecups and the paring of Quinces then throw upon it the powder of Bolearmoniack Frankincense c. Particular Receipts for the Falling of the Fundament Take Garden Cresses and having dried 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 mix with it the powder of Cummin and it helpeth Another Take white Salt made into very fine powder strow a little upon the Gut then take a piece of Lard and first having boiled Mallow-leaves till they be soft and beat the leaves well with the Lard and when it is well beaten make it up like to a Suppository and apply it to the place every day once till it be whole Another Take a small Fagot made of the green Boughs of the Willow-tree and burn them to Ashes in some clean place When you have done wash his Fundament with warm Water and strow some of the finest of them upon it and put it up into its place again with your warm Hand and Tie down hâ—s Tuel between his hinder Legs to his Surcingle pretty streight and it will Knit very strong again Or white Pepper strowed upon it after it hath been beaten and sâ—arced to a very fine powder and used as you did the other is very good also Things good in General for the Biting of a mad Dog To let blood first Angelica Balm Wood-bittony Cardus Benedictus the Juice of Elder all taken inwardly An Ointment made of the Juice of the Figtree leaves and Hogs grease is good to anoint the sore Gentian Felt-wort or Baldmony Hounds toâ—gue Mint bruised and laid to the â—ore is good Pimpernel given inwardly or applied outwardly Plantine the Bark of the Wall-Nut tree taken with Onions Salt and Honey is good the tops of Rue Box leaves Primrose roots of each alike powdred together and boiled in new Milk with London-Treacle is good Hob goblin Dan-wort Sallet-Oyl the powder of Diapente given inwardly or lay a live Pidgeon cleaved in the midst hot to the Wound and it will draw out the venom and heal the sore with Turpentine and Hogs-grease melted together the leaves of Aristolochia bruised will take away the poison Yarrow Calamint and Southernwood made into a Salve The Ash Keys the Roots of the sweet Bryar dried and beaten to powder and given inwardly and applied outwardly is good c. Particular Receipts for the Biting of a mad Dog Take Hob-goblin Periwincle and Box-leaves of each half a handful first mince them small and stamp them very small in a Stone Mortar and with Milk or Beer administer it both at the Change and Full of the Moon The best of Cures for the Biting of a mad Dog Take the Herb which groweth in dry and barren Hills called The Sâ—ar of the Earth you must give it three days together the first time you must gather three of these Herbs with all the whole Roots and wash and wipe them clean then pound them well losing no part of them and give it him in Beer an â— be careful that he hath all the Herbs and Roots you may make them up in sweet Butter which will do as well The second day give him five of these Herbs and Roots and the third day seven and he will be assuredly Cured for it Cureth all manner of Cattel of all sorts whatsoever It Cured a whole Kennel of Hounds of a Gentlemans one Beagle excepted which they did not suspect to be bitten It Cured a Gentlemans Son who was so far gone with it that his Head began to be Addle and to talk idlely yet it Cured him perfectly and though he was then but a Child yet he lived to be a proper man Look for another afterwards Another Take Goats dung and of Flesh that hath layn long in the Salt with the Herb Danewort of each half a pound and fourty Wall Nuts stampt altogether and lay part thereof to the Sore and it will suck out the venom and
heal up the Wound but upon the first Dressing give him Wine and Treacle together to drink Another Give him two or three spoonfuls of the powder of Diapente in a quart of good Ale or Beer and to cauterize and burn the Sore and to heal it up with a healing Salve Another Presently after the Biting let him Blood then take Sage and Rue of each a large handful one Ounce of common Treacle three or four Heads of Garlick peeled and bruised of scraped Tinn or Tinnfoyl the bigness of a Nutmeg Put all these into a Gallon of strong Ale and put them up into an Earthen Pot close stopped with Paste then boyl it in a Kettle of Water till half of it be consumed Give him five or six spoonfuls of it before the Full of the Moon and three days after but if necessity requires give it presently Another not so difficult to make First let Blood as you must always do in this Distemper then take Henbane and burn it to Ashes and mingle it with Hogs-grease and apply it to the place bitten and give him some of the Juice of the green Herb inwardly to drink in a quarter of a Pint of Angelica water and he will do well Things good in General to expel all manner of Poison either by Serpent Spider or any venomous Beâ—st Bay-berries Burrage the powder of the blâ—w Bottle the powder of the Root of the Butter-burr water Caltrops Dragons the seed of Fennel Garlick English or foreign Gentian Felt-wort or Baldmony Clove-Gilliflowers Angelica Germander Hawk-weed the leaves or the berries of the Herb called True-love or one Berry Hops Horehound Juniper-berries Lavender-Cotton the white Lilly Lovage wild Marjorem Mustard-seed Ground pine or Champepitis the Seeds of Garden Rue Sorrel Southern-wood Stone-crop the Juice of Turmentil or Set-foyle Heart-trefoyl Vipers Bugloss the Root of Valerian Holy-thistle Birth-wort the Root of Spider wort the seed of Turneps the Juice of Bastard-wild poppy Moon-wort Calamus white Hellebore or Neesing-root Bittony Elecampane Mallowes Cinque-foyl Master-wort or Herb Gerard the seed of Hercules All heal Parsley-seed Ameos or Bishops weed Wormwood Pomâ—itron the seed of Oringes Pepper the Ashes of Reeds given him to drink Mug-wort or great Tansie and Wine and Camomel stampt together Particular Receipts to expel Poison Take a pint of Sallet Oyl and mix with it some Dragon and Angelica water and give it him luke-warm Another Take Calamus â—ittony Angelica Dragons and Elecampane and Bay-berries about two ounces of all of them together very finely beaten and boyl them in a quart of Ale and give it him is very Excellent Another Take Rue Mug-wort Germander and Worm-wood chopt small and boyled in a quart of Beer and give it him If You desire to know the best Cure for this Distemper Look for the Ointment of Dialthaea or Marsh-Mallows in the Table of the Prices if Dâ—ugs and you may find the Receipt â—f it Things good in General for the Plague or Pestilence Red-Lead Bezor the seed of the Thorny-Apple Gun-powder Bistort or Snake weed one Blade Burrage the powder of the blew bottle the Roots of the Butter-Burr beaten to powder the Juice of Cellendine Cuckoe-pint dryed and beaten to powder the Leaves or Root of Devils bit boyled in Wine Elecampane Garlick True-love or one Berry the Berries of Ivy Juniper berries pimpernel the seeds of Garden Rue Saffron Sage the Roots of the Star thistle Stone-crop Angelica the Roots of Valerian Diapente mixed with Sack and sweetned with Treacle Urine mixt with Hens dung Gentian Aristolochia Myrrh Scrapings of Ivory Bay-berries Pepper Germander Turmentil the Seeds or Leaves of Southernwood stamped and given in white-Wine or Ale with Bolearmoniack or Balm Bittony or Naphe the Juice of Marigolds Scabius Dragons water Mug-wort Featherfew Yarrow Tansie Briar-leaves or Elder-leaves the Root of the white Lilly given three Mornings together boiled in Beer causeth the poison of the Pestilence to break forth into Blisters in the outward part of the Skin the Root of Winter-Green is good Calathian Violet Vipers-grass Rue Ameos or Bishops-weed To preserve a Horse from the Infection of the Plague is to anoint his Nose with Vineger wherein hath been steeped Affasetida during the Infection Particular Receipts for the Cure of the Plague or Pestilence Take Devil-bit Gun-powder Bistort or Snakeweed Angelica Bay-berries the Root Meum Elecampane all beaten to powder and give it him two Mornings together and Order him as you do other sick Horses About three Ounces of all of them is enough Another Give him two spoonfuls of Diapente with a pint of white-Wine or a quart of strong Beer sweetned with Treacle and give it him If you desire more Receipts you may Compound them as your discretion will think â—it out of my General Things for the Plague Things good in General for Pissing and Staling of Blood Agrimony Wood-bittony Bucks-horn Plantine wilde Bryar Palls the whole Chest-Nut dried and beaten to powder the powder of the Root of the Earth Chest-Nut the Root of Cinquefoyl or Five-Leav'd Grass Clowns Wound-wort Comfrey the powder of an Herb called Crabs-claws the Herb or Seed of Flix-weed given wherein Steel hath been quenched Fluellen or Lluellen Golden Rod the smoother Tail of the rougher Horse tail the Juice of Housleek Spear-Mint Money wort Mouse-Ear dried green Mulberries red Robin Shepherds Purse Bolearmoniack Hob-Goblin Blood-wort Plantine the Juice of Purslain the powder of Gum Tragacanth and Arabeck the red Rattle grass boiled in red Wine red Roses the seeds of Rushes the Juice of the powder of Sanicle The Seeds of Sorrel or Roots wilde Tansie wild Tyme or Mother of Tyme Turmentil or Set-foyl the Kernels of old Wall-Nuts the powder of the Rinde oâ— dried Pomgranates Pollipodiâ—m of the Wall Knot-grass Comfery Storax Pine-apple Kernels Daffodil and Wheat-flower or Licoris and Anniseeds rowled in Honey and given him Barley boyled in the Juice of Gumsolly the Barley to eat and the Liquor to drink the yellow Willow herb Bugle herb Two pence water-Sengreen Marsh mallowes the Root or Queen of the Medow Knipper-wort the tender tops of the Bramble-bush or Flowers the berries of the Hawthorn tree Acatia Moss of an Oaken pale or stick boyled in Beer Coral is a most excellent thing to stop all issues of blood a live Frog given him or Aristolochia longa boiled in Ale or Beer is very good Particular Receipts for the Care of a Horse that Pisses or stales Blood Take Knot-grass Shepherds purse Blood-wort of the Hedge Pollipodium of the Wall Comfery Garden Blood-wort of each a handful shred them small and put them into a quart of Beer and boil them then put to them a little Salt Leaven and Soot mix altogether and give it him Another for the same Take three or four red Sprats or one red Herring with a hard Row chop them very small and let them lie asteep aâ—out half an hour in a quart of strong Beer
Root of the black Hellebore bâ—aten to powder and strowed upon them consumeth the dead Flesh instantly the leaves of True-Love or one Berry Knape-weed Knot-Grass Ladies Mantle Money-wort or the Herb Two-pence the Juice of the Leaves or Roots of Nettles is good to wash all rotten and stinking Sores Fistulaes and Gangrenes and such as are fretting eating or corroding scabs or manginess in any part of the Body the Root of Cow Parsneps scraped upon the hard skin of a Fistula will take it away the Juice of Pellitory of the Wall Pimpernel Ground-pine or Champepitis the Juice of Plantine Queen of the Medows the Juice of Rag-wort or Rag-weed the red Rattle-grass Winter Rochet or Winter-Cresses the Juice of wild Sage the Juice of Sâ—razens Wound-wort It is good for Ulcers in the Mouth and Throat be it never so foul and stinking and so is Sanicle the powder of Savin is good to cleanse them but it keeps them from healing the Juice of Scabius the Juice of Garden Succory Self-heal is good to cleanse Sores and is good for Ulcers in the Mouth and Throat so is the Juice of Smallage put to Honey of Roses the Juice of Sorrel or Wood sorrel is good for Ulcers and Cankers the Juice of the Tamarisk Tree Vervain the Juice of the Leaves of the Wall-Nut Tree or the Water of them distilled in Ale is good to cleanse and Cure â—oul Running Sores Wheat-Flower mixed with the Yolk of an Egg Honey and Turpentine doth draw and heal any Bile Plague Sore or any running â—oul Ulcer Roch Allom and Bay-salt burned to powder and beaten together and mixed with Cummin and Honey keep it for your use and apply it either Tent-wise or Plaister-wise which will heal any old Sore the Oyl of Turpentine is good likewise for the same purpose the Juice of Beets Calafoma or Calofonia the Ashes of Garlick strowed upon them the powder of Cellendine or Verdegrease Vineger and Honey mingled together upon the Fire but if you intend to make it stronger put to it some Mercury Sublimate and Arsnick beaten to powder but the other may be applied to the Mouth and he receive no danger or white-Wine Vineger Mercury Precipitate Camphire green Treacle Sage Yarrow and Ribwort with Honey and Hogs-grease boiled together till half be consumed and strain it and wash the Wound with the Liquor or take four quarts of Cole-trough water boyl it and skin it then boyl it over again after you have strained it with white Copperas Allom and Verdegrease of each a pound beaten to powder and when it is clear put it into a Glass for your use The powder which remaineth at the bottom keep by it self for it will heal up any Old Sore or take Roman Vitriol Roch Allom and Rose-water boiled till they become as hard as a stone and strow this powder upon it is excellent good but to break a Fistula take Brook lyme Mallows Arsmart of each alike boiled in Chamber-Lye till they be soft and apply it to the Swelling and renew it not in two or three days But to Cure a Canker take red Grape leaves Bramble-leaves Honey-suckle leaves Allom Columbine â—eaves Sage leaves boiled in Water and wash the sore till it bleed or Verdegrease Butter and Salt melted scaldâ—ng hot and pour it into the Fistula and use it till all the Flesh look red then tent it with Verdegrease Allom Wheat-flower and the Yolks of Eggs beaten and mingled together and skin it with Barm and Soot mixt together or Loam-Wall and Wine Vinegâ—r put hot upon the sore is good to ripen and heal it or Butter Rozin and Frankincense made boiling hot and poured into the Wound and for a Fistula in the Head dip a Lock of Wooll in the Juice of the Housâ—eek and put it into his Eare and put Hurds upon it and Tie it cloâ—e and this will break it or â—alt mixed with Butter or Water and salt put into his Ear will do the like Particular Receipts for the Cure of a Fistula After you have searched it to the bottom with a Probe of Lead or some other thing which will bend wheresoever the Concavity of the Sorrance leadeth it and when you have found the bottom let it be opened downwards if it may be possibly done to the end the Corruption may the better issue out then tent it two or three days with tried Hogs-grease to cause the hole to be the wider then inject this Water following Take of Sublimate and of Precipitate of each as much as will lie upon a three-pâ—nce of Allom and of white Copperas of each three Ounces burn all these in an Earthen Pot but first rub the bottom with a little Oyl to keep it from burning this done burn them together then take two quarts of fair clear Water boyl it first by it self and scum it in the boyling then take it from the Fire and put in as much of this powder as will lie upon a shilling at twice and thus it is made bâ—t if you would have it stronger then take fair water and Smiths water of each alike and of white Wine vineger a third part with the Ashes of Ashen-wood make Lye of them with the Water and Vineger and so make your Water with this Powder and Lye in the former Ingredients according as before is taught you inject this water with a Syringe into the Sorrance and in a short time it will both kill the Fistula and heal it up and is an approved and infallible Cure Another Take a Pint of the best Honey an Ounce of Verdegrease beaten to powder and boyl them together three quarters of an hour then strain it into a Gally-Pot and keep it for your use This is a very precious Ointment to tent a Fistula or Poll-evil for it searcheth it to the bottom and eateth away all dead and evil Flesh which causeth it to heal the better A Water for a Fistula Take a Pint of the best white-Wine you can get or for want of that white-Wine Vineger or Verjuice and put a good handful of Sage-leaves bruised into it After you have boiled it pretty well strain out the Sage from the Wine and dissolve into it about an Ounce and a half of Roman Vitriol half an Ounce of burnt Allom and half an Ounce of the fine powder of Verdegrease When it is cool put it in a Glass and keep it close stopped for your use When you dress the Sore let it be very warm and Syringe it very well to the bottom once or twice a day and in five or six Weeks it will be Cured Another Receipt for a Fistula Take of Roch Allom and bay Salt burnt of each half an Ounce the leaves of Rag-weed and Elder-tops what you think fitting according to the Concavity of the Sore bruise and mix them very well together with a handful or two of Grey Snails shells and all and stop the Hole full of it to the bottom having first washed and cleansed it very
to a salve and put this Medicine into his Eares by equal portions in the Morning before Sun-rise and stitch them up and let him stand with Meat before him and let his Drink be white water Unstitch them not in twenty four houres then take forth the wooll and stuff and he is Cured Another If the Farcin be in the fore-parts of the Horse take two ounces of Arsnick and put it into a piece of new Cloth and bind it up with a piece of new pack-thread and fasten it unto his Mayn and if it be in his hinder-parts as well as his fore-parts then hang it upon his Tail and the more you ride and exercise him the better and though the common way is to keep him with a spare diet I like not of it for you cannot keep him too well for the lower you keep him the more doth the disease get the upper hand of him Another to anoint the Farcy Knots with Take black Hellebore and add to the Herb some of its Juice then put to it old Boars or Barrows Grease and boyl it till the Juice be quite boyled away in it whereby to bring it to an Ointment with which anoint the Knots or Buttons of the Farcin with but shave or clip away the hair before you do anoint it Another for it when it first appears before it begins to be raw Take of Chamberly Soot and Bay-salt and boyl them very well together then at night wash the Places infected with a rag upon the end of a stick very hot but not so hot as to scauld away the hair then in the morning anoint it with Tarr and black Sope boyled together pretty hot This done four or five times together will Cure it Another which De-Grey says he hath Cured 100 Horses with Take of Rue the leaves and tender tops only without any the least stalk a good handful first chop them small then stamp them in a Mortar to an Ointment then put to it one spoonful of the purest tried Hogs-grease you can get and work them together to a Salve then stop into either Ear the whole quantity by equal proportions and put a little wooll upon the Medicine to cause him to keep it in the better and so stitch up his eares and let it be in about twenty 24 houres and then unstitch them and take forth the Wooll and he is Cured Another which if he hath it given him twice it will Cure him Take the inner Rind of Elder the inner Rind of the Wall-nut-tree the inner Rind of the Barberry-tree of all of them an equal quantity and not exceeding above a handful of all of them together Boyl them in a quart of strong Beer a little while then take out the Barks and add to it the powder of Turmerick Fennegreek and two Nut-galls beaten to powder with the powder of Grains of Paradice about an ounce of all of them boyl them in the same Beer about as long as you did before then sweeten it with Treacle and give it him luke-warm in the Morning fasting and let him fast two or three houres after it and order him as you do a sick horse if you put into it a little handful of stone-crop it will be the bettet You must wash the buds of the Farcy night and morning with this water Take half a pound of green Copperas and boyl it a little while in a quart of Chamberly before you boil it you must put in a good quantity of Salt or Brine Another After you have kept him slenderly fed all Night give him the next Morning fasting half a pint of the Juice of Housleek and half a Pint of Sallet Oyl mingled together and let him Fast till Night and then give him Hay and no Water till the next Morning and that warm too This Drink used twice will almost Cure any Farcy Another for the Farcy Take a handful of each of these Herbs here under-written chopped very small and boiled in three Pints of strong Ale or Beer to about a Pint and an half and after you have strained the Liquor very well from the Herbs give it him luke-warm fasting in the Morning but before you give it him stir into it an Ounce of crude Antimony finely powdred and searc'd About three or four days after give him the like Drink again and repeat it the third time if there be occasion and it will certainly Cure him The Herbs are these Chickweed Wood-bittony Groundsel and Mullen The Buds must be anointed also with this outward Application Take the bigness of a Hazel-Nut of yellow Arsnick beaten to powder and put to it about a spoonful of black Sope or for want of that common Sope and lay a little of it upon the Head of every one of them which will so corrode and eat into them that they will become so loose that they will drop out by the Roots then heal up the wounded places by anointing them with your green Ointment which you may find in the first Part or with Sallet-Oyl or Hogs grease take care you let him not come to gnaw it with his Teeth for fear of poisoning him or that you lay it not upon any sound place for it will make a Wound wheresoever it comes You may anoint them with the Oyl of Vitriol if yoâ— please which hath the same Operation with the other Another outward Application for this Disease which will not only Cure the Buds of it but any foul Scab Leprosie or Mange After you have let Blood which is always convenient in this Disease Take three Pints of old Urine and a Pint of Vineger or Verjuice and put to it half a Pound of the Stalks of the strongest Tobaccho you can get but let them be first bruised and laid asteep in the Urine all Night before you boil them After you have â—o done set it over the Fire and put to it an Ounce of the Flower of Brimstone and boil them altogether till it come to a quart then strain forth the Liquor from the stalks and anoint the infected places with it till they be well Another inward and outward Application for the Farcy After you have Blooded those Buds with your Incision-Knife which are fresh and green wash them once or twice a day with your fistula-Fistula-water which will Kill them conditionally you give him this inward Drink with it viz. Take two quarts of Running Water and put to it two Handfuls of Herb-grace chopt indifferent small with two or three spoonfuls of bruised Hemp-seed and set it over the Fire and let it boyl away till it come to three Pints then give it him three times in nine days and Order him as you do sick Horses and he will do well Another to Cure it by pâ—tting something into his Eares After you have bruised about nine or ten Cloves of Garlick being first peel'd wiuh a Handful of Rue and about half a quarter of a Pint of Brandy strain the Juice through
come to a perfect Ointment then strain it into a Gally-pot and keep it for your use only warm it aâ—d so dress the Sorrance therewith with Lint or Hurds and it will soon be whole Another After you have washed the Sore with old Urine and Salt then anoint it with an Ointment made of Bitony powder of Brimstone Hellebore Pitch and old Hogs-grease stamped together and melted or with your green Ointment in the First Part. Another for the Navel-Gall If the place be only swelled and the skin not broken then dabb the grieved Part all over with your Hand or with a Rag wet in Brandy and it will take it down Or the Oyl of Turpentine used after the same mannâ—r will do the like but if it be raw and sore then these Medicines are very proper for it viz. Take a quarter of a Pint of Whale Oyl by some called Train Oyl and boyl in it as much of the powder of Verdegrease finely powdred and â—earced as will lie upon a small shilling and the grieved part anointed with it will Cure it very speedily Or the same quantity of Verdegrease Train-Oyl and two or three spoonfuls of the Ointment of Marshmallows boyled a little together is a certain Cure for it How you are to Order them If the Skin hang loose about them you are to cut it off But if it be an Old Navel-Gall which feels hard then cut out the bruise with your Incision Knife and â—ear the wound up again with a hot Iron and heal it up with your green Ointment in the First Part. These Medicines are not only good for a Navel Gall but for any manner of Sores and raw Backs whatsoever and also for a Sit-fast Vnguentum Bubrum desicativum is also good for them so is Palm-Oyl What is good for the Cure of the Palâ—ey To let him Blood on his Neck-Vein and Temple-Veins on the contrary side to that way he wryeth his Neck then anoint his Back all over with Oyl of Petrolium and with a wet Hay Rope swaddle his Neck all over even from his Breast to his Eares Then for three Mornings together give him a Pint of old Muscadine with a spoonful of these powders in it viz. Opoponax Storax Gentian Manna Succory Myrrh and long Pepper beaten all into fine powder but put not in so much of the Myrrh and long Pepper as of any of the rest Things good in general to Cure the Lethargy or sleeping Evil. To keep him waking with great Noise and let him Blood in the Neck and Palate of the Mouth and to give him water wherein hath been boiled Chamomel Mother-wort Wheat Bran Salt and Vineger to perfume his Head and to anoint the Palate of his Mouth with Honey and Mustard mixt together or to put Parsley-seed or Fennel-seed into his Water to provoke him to Urine Another for the same After you have Blooded as you must always do in this Disease then take some of the green Boughs of the Ash-Tree and set them on Fire in some clean place and quench the Coals made thereof in some Ale and when you have strained it out give him a Hornful of it at each Nostril the Cold being first taken off 'T is good also to open his Forehead underneath his Fore-top and put into it a Slice or two of an old Onion and let them lie there till they Rot. Things good in General for the Phrenzie and Madness in a Horse To let him Blood in all the lower parts of his Body to draw the Blood front his Head As namely in his Shackle Veins the Spur-Veins the Plat-Veins and the Thigh Veins and let him Blood very much then give him this Drink Take the Root of wilde Cucumber and where that cannot be gotten take a Handful of Rue or Mints and a Handful of black Hellebore and boyl them in Beer and give it him luke warm or to give him the Root of Virga Pastoris stamped in water or to give him Mans Dung in Wine three Mornings together or to make him swallow down Hens Dung Things good in General for the Quitter-bone To open it and put some Oyl of Vitriol into it and that will so eat about the Bone so that you may thrust it out this is a very safe and as good a Medicine as any you have If you find it eat too much you may stop the eating of it with cold water or with your Copperas water in my First Part which will not only keep it sweet and clean but also keep proud Flesh from growing in it or you may heal it up with a Salve made of Turpentine and Hogs-grease and always before you dress it to wash it with the said water or Auripigmentum made into fine powder and steeped in white-Wine twenty eight houres and apply it to it and it will eat so about it that you may pull it away with your Fingers and do likewise after the bone or gristle is taken out heal it up with your Copperas water and your green Ointment and let him not come into the water during the time of Cure Particular Receipts for the Cure of a Quitter-bone Tent it a day or two with Hogs-grease and Verdegrease ground together then take scalding hot Grease poured into the Hole and lay a Plaister of Pitch and Tarr mixt over it for twenty four houres and if the Bone rise not do the same again and it will rise then take it out with your Nippers and heal it up with some of your Salve which you best like on which you may find in my First Part. Another Take of common Honey and Verdegrease in fine powder as much of each as will suffice boyl it till it be red and tent the Wound till it be whole keeping evermore the Wound open lest it heal up above before it be well healed up at bottom Another Take of Arsnick the quantity of a small Bean made into â—ine powder and put it to the botttom of the Sorrance and stop the Mouth of it with hurds and bind a clout over it very fast that he bite it not off for it will poison him and after it hath remained on for twenty four houres open it and it will look black therein it is a sign that it hath done his work then to allay the fire and to restore the flesh is to taint it with Turpentine and Hogs grease melted together and to cover the taint with a Plaister made of Rozin Pitch Wax and Turpentine melted together and thus dress him daily till you have got out the Core or sharp Gristle for till that be out the Sorrance will not heal or to heal it up with your green Ointment Things good in General for the Cure of a Ring-bone To wash the place with Vineger after you have shaved away the Hair then use green Vitriol Euphorbium Cantharides Verdegrease Oyl de Bay Venice Turpentine Oyl of Turpentine the powder of Tartar and Salt Arsnick unslackt Lime the powder of Vitriol Pepper
Simples and Order him as you do sick Horses with Mashes bursten Oats scalded Bran warm Clothing and warm Water c. About three or four days after he hath done Purging and drank cold Water to bring him to a Stomach give him Honey and white-Wine and to comfort him and Loosen his Body and to make him Stale freely give him the Cordial of Houshold Wheat Bread boyled in Beer c. You may find the manner how to make this also in the Directions how to Order sick Horses after the Table of Simples As to the Ordering of his swelled Cods or Legs you may apply to them after his Physick hath done working the common Charge of Soap and Brandy scalding hot and three or four days after Ride him into some River or clear Pond up to the mid side and Flounce him backwards and forwards which will be a means to abate and take away the Swelling You need not lay on your Charge above once These Directions are in case of a dry Surfeit But if he be troubled with a Cold which you may soon know by his Coughing and Running at Nose then give him this Drink viz. of the Powder of Anniseeds and Turmerick of each on Ounce put into a Pint and a half of strong Beer half a quarter of Brandy and about five or six Spoonfuls of white-Wine Vineger or for want of either Verjuice Boyl all these a little and give it hâ—m luke-warm Fasting in the Morning If you find his Stomach lost give him his Cordial But if you find that your Horse is fat and strong and hath his Grease setled within him then give him the Purge of Aloes first but if you find him both fat and ill together then give him this white-Wine and Honey and Cordial to bring him to a Stomach and after them give him his Purge Observation These Heats and Colds which are occasioned by hard Labour or violent Riding does commonly bring along with them hard Pustules and Kernels under his Chaul which you may either sink or break with your common Charge of Soap and Brandy boiled together and applied hot If you find that they break wash them with Verjuice and Butter or Vineger and Butter melted together and they will do well Things good in General to Mollifie Hardness Linseed Fennegreek Rosin Pitch of Greece Flower of Roses boyled together with Turpentine Honey and Sallet Oyl till it come to an Ointment Malvarâ—sco Oleum Rosatum Brank-ursine Mallows Coleworts Lard Oyl of Cypress with Meal Pellitory Wormwood or Grease Mustard-seed and Cummin boiled together or the Juice of the Roots or Leaves of Elder Armoniack Aloes Opoponax Nettles Mercorella the Roots of Cucumbers Hogs-Grease and Tar Turpentine and old Grease beaten together Oyl of Turpentine is very excellent to take down a Swelling Patch-Grease and Turpentine melted together and stop his Feet therewith and anoint his Coffins therewith or Salt and Water mixt together and Bath the Swelling therewith and dip a Linnen Cloth in the same and lay that upon it and it will dissolve it What is good for bruised Kidneys The powder of the Herb called Crabs-Claws Plantine Licoris Broom c. Things good in General for a sore Mouth and Throat Wood-bine leaves Bolearmoniack Plantine water to wash it with a Water made of them or to wash it with Bay salt and Verjuice warmed together If the Palate be sore then let him Blood there then take Honey young Onions and toasted Cheese boiled together and anoint the Pallate with it or to wash it with the Juice of Alehoof the Juice of Golden Rod Mallows or Marsh-Mallows or Mint or Mulberries or Nettles or Pellitory of the Wall or Privet or Queen of the Medows or Rag-wort or Sage and Allum or Self-heal or Succory or the Juice of the English Vine the Decoction of Rag-weed Plantine boiled in white-Wine Mustard-seed applied outwardly dissolveth the Swelling of the Throat What is good for the Quinsey To let Blood under the Tongue and if his Throat is so swelled that you can get nothing hardly to go down it lay a Poultess under his Chaul and that will open the Passage then take a Bulls Pizzle or a Whale-bone and Tie a Linnen Rag about it and dip it into Milk wherein Allum and the powder of a Dogs-turd hath been dissolved and thrust it up and down his Throat and put a Hornful of it down after it if he be so bad that he can eat nothing but what you give him with a Horn which must be comfortable and Cordial things be sure let the Hornful of Milk wherein Allum and Dogs-turd hath been dissolved be the last thing you give him or else it will do him no good and to Tie him up to the Rack half an Hour after it you are to use it two or three times a day or oftner as you shall see occasion or four Ounces of the Juice of Cinquefoyl given down at a time for certain days together cureth it or the Juice of Cudiweed or Cotton-weed taken in Wine and Milk is a good Remedy against t so is Hysop boyled with Figs. Another Receipt good for it After you have Blooded him under the Tongue take as many Leaves of common Mallows as you think fit for your use Boyl them very well in his own Piss and apply it as hot Poultiss-wise to his Throat as he oâ—n well endure it and you shall soon find the wonderful effects of it for it will open the Passage of his Throat and take down the Swelling occasioned by the Inflammation of it Do this two or three times if you see occasion and apply your inward Medicine also to it as the Receipt above will direct you Things good in General to Kill Lice or Vermin The Decoction of the Herb or seed of Henbane and wash him with it to wash his Body all over with Cows Piss for three or four days together it is an approved and certain Cure and is as good as any I can give you However I shall give you some more Receipts which is to anoint him with Quick-silver and Hogs-grease mixed together or take Staves-acre and green Copperas boiled in Running water and wash him all over therewith and at twice dressing it will Cure him or Tobacco shred small and boyled in small Beer with some powdred Allum and when the Allum is dissolved to wash him therewith Another very good to destroy them Take Hogs Lard and anoint your Horse all over his Back-bone and under his Mane and about his Flanks or any where elsewhere you find your Lice do come and it will destroy them the reason is that this food being so very delicious and so well lik't of by them makes them seed so much upon it that it causeth them to burst Or to take Train Oyl which is Whale Oyl and anoint his Breast and Flanks with it and then dip a broad List of Woollen into it and sow it about his Neck and this will destroy them Things
consumed then take it off and with a Clout fastned to a stick wash the Sorrance very hot four or five Mornings together and it will Kill it A very good Receipt to Cure any manner of Scab Itch or Scurf in any part of a Horses Body Mix Sallet Oyl his own Water white Wine Vineger Salt Butter and Brimstone together and anoinâ— the grieved part with it twice a day and it will Cure them Let your Quantities of all these things be more or less according to the Cure you undertake Things good in General for the Crown Scab which is a stinking and filthy Scab breeding round about the corners of the Hoof. Spread upon a Plaister this Ointment take salt Bacon Grease Soot Wax and Pitch molten together and lay to it and if the Flesh grows proud eat it away with Verdegrease beaten to powder or with burnt Allum or scrapings of Harts-horn or Ox-horn made into powder or take Sope and Hogs-Grease and half a pound of Bolearmoniack and a quarter of a pound of Turpentine mixed well together and make a Plaister and bind it on fast renewing it every day till it leave Running and then wash it with strong Vineger made warm and let him come into no water during the Cure or to Bathe him with old Urine sod with salt and that will dry up the Humours and heal it or to wash it with green Copperas Allum and Honey boiled together in fair water and wash the Sore with it three or four times a day and this will both kill and heal it without any other Medicine Things good in General for a surbated Horse Take two new laid Eggs and after you have well picked his fore-Feet break them raw into his Soles then stop them up with Ox or Cow dung and he will be well by the next Morning or Sugar-Candy melted with a hot Iron between the Shoo and the Foot and when it is hardned take Nettles and Bay-salt stamped and laid upon it or after his Foot is pared to cool it stop his Feet with Bran and Hogs-Grease boiled together very hot and to cover the Coffin round with the same or to stop them every Night with Cows dung and Vineger mingled together Things good in General for Sinews that are Cut Prickt Bruised or Shrunk or for any other Griefs in them Alheal is good for the Grief of them Wood-bitony Comfrey soddereth cut Sinews together the dried powder of red Wheat boiled in Vineger is good wilde Tansie Oyl of Chamomel Mugwort cureth the Contraction and drawing together of the Sinews or Tarr Bean-flower and Oyl of Roses mixed together and laid to the place hot and if it do not presently good then take Wormes and Sallet-Oyl Fried together or else the Ointment of Wormes which you may have at the Apothecaries and apply either of them for they Knit the Sinews again if they be not quite cut asunder but if there be a Convulsion you must with your Scissers cut the Sinew asunder then take Rozin and Turpentine Pitch and Sanguis Draconis melted together and clapped somewhat hot to the Sore then take Flax and clap upon that for that will cleanse and defend and is a very excellent Medicine for any swollen Joynt whatsoever But if the Sinews be not much swelled but only stiff then take of black Soap a pound and seethe it in a quart of strong Ale till it wax thick like Tarr and anoint the Sinews and Joynts with it and it will supple them and stretch them forth be they never so much shrunk Or take a quart of Neats-soot Oyl a quart of Ox galls a quart of Aqua-vitae or Brandy a quart of Rose-water or a Handful of Rosemary stamped boyl all these together till half be consumed and strain it and use it as you see occasion A Receipt for a Cut Sinew Take the Leaves of Nep or Woodbine and bruise them well in a Mortar with May Butter and apply it to them is very good to Knit them together A Particular Receipt for the Shrinking of the Sinews Take a Handful of Chickweed of red Roses dried the like quantity put them into a Pint of Ale and a Pint of Canary and let them boyl together till a fourth part be consumed then put to them a Pint of Trotters Oyl and let that boyl also a good while keeping them stirring which being strained anoint the grieved part therewith chasing it in very well with your Hand holding a hot Fire-shovel or Brick bat before it at the same time to make it sink in the better When you bind it up put to it some of the Herbs and at three or four times Dressing it will be well The Decoction of the Root of Scabius and Garden Tansie boiled in Sallet Oyl Or the Decoction of the Leaves of Mullen with Sage Marjorem and Camomel Flowers and the grieved part bathed therewith is excellent good for them c. Things good in General to Cure the Tongue of a Horse that is hurt To boyl in Water Wood-bine leaves Primrose leaves black Berryleaves Knot-grass with some Honey and put to it a little Allum and two or three times a day wash it with a Clowt Tied upon a stick being luke-warm or take Mel Rosatum and anoint therewith and be sure whensoever you dress his Tongue or Mouth Tie him up to the Rack an hour after it that so the Medicine may take the better effect or take red Honey the marrow of powdered Pork quick Lime and Pepper made into fine powder of each alike boiled together till they come to an Ointment and anoint with it twice a day Particular Receipts for the Cure of the Tongue of a Horse that is hurt Take of Arman half an Ounce and put it into the Fire till it become red hot then take it out and beat it to very fine powder then take a Sawcer full of live Honey and of white-Wine one Pint mix and steep these with the Powder together and so let it boyl over the Fire keeping it stirring then take it off and let it cool and so wash his Tongue Morning and Evening with it till it be whole Another Take the Juice of Selandine and wash the Hurt therewith nine days together and it will Cure it though it be half Cut asunder for the Juice of the Selandine will conglutinate and sodder the Tongue together being cut or wounded Things good for Venomed Things Garden Bazil or sweet Bazil laid to it is good for any thing Venomed by a Spider Wasp Bee or Hornet Water-bistort or Snakeweed is likewise good and if he hath drunk Horse-Leeches Hens-dung and the like give him three spoonfuls of the Herb Sow-thistle dried in a quart of Ale Another for a Venom Take a Handful of Rue and stamp with it the Fat of rusty Bacon till it come to a perfect Salve and therewith dress the Sore till it be whole Another to be used either inwardly or outwardly If he hath eaten any Venomed thing Give him
the Juice of Sage Morning and Evening in Wine or Ale but if he be outwardly venomed bruise the Sage and apply it to the grieved part twice a day and it will take out the Venom Things good in General for Vlcers Tarr Hogs-Grease green or white Copperas Salt-Peter Bees Wax Honey Rozin Verdegrease Linseed Oyl all boiled together and make a Salve of it and dress it with it Euphorbium Mastick French Soap is good or to wash the Sore with white Wine and green Copperas dissolved together and to heal it up with Swines Grease the Leaves of Lillies beaten in a Mortar and make a Salve of it and lay it upon the Sore and cover it with a Plaister or Loam and Horse dung mixed with Pepper and the white of an Egg or to strow upon the Sore of the powder of Galls or to scald it once a day with Sallet-Oyl or Sack Frankincense Cloves green Copperas and Brimstone and double as much Myrrh as any of them and put it upon a Chafing-dish of Coals and receive the smoke of it upon Hurds and keep it close in a Box and when you use it wash the Sore with Urine or Vineger twice a day Things good in General for a Vlcer or Canker in the Nose Green Copperas and white Copperas with some Allum boiled in Running water and squirted into his Nostrils luke-warm three or four times one after another is good but if the Canker be hot and very burning with great pain then take the Juice of Purslain Night-shade Lettice and mix them together and wash the Sore with a fine Cloth dipt therein or else squirted up his Nostils and it will allay the heat of it Or to take Sage Rue Hysop of each a Handful and seethe them in Urine and Water and strain it out and put into it a little white Copperas Honey and Aquavitae and wash or squirt it into the place But if the Canker be killed heal it with this Water take of Rib-wort Bitony and Dasies of each a Handful and Seethe them well in Wine and Water and wash the Sore therewith Or take Chrystal made into fine Powder and strow upon it Pauls Bitony bruised is very good Things good in General to Cure the Vives To Cut a Hole where the Kernels are and pick them out with a Wire and â—â—ll the Hole with Salt and at three days end it will run then wash it with the Juice of Sage and heal it up with an Ointment made of Hony Butter and Tarr or with your green Ointment in my First Part or to wash the Sore wherein hath been boiled green Copperas and Allum and to Taint it with Flax dipt in the white of an Egg beaten to an Oyl or to heal it up with Hogs Grease Turpentine and Wax molten together or take a Spunge dipped in white-Wine Vineger and bind to the Sore and renew it twice a day till the Kernels do Rot then open the nethermost part of the softness and let the corruption out and fill the Hole with Salt finely brayed and the next day wash away the Filth with warm water and the next day after wash the Sore with Honey and Fitch-flower mingled together till it be whole Particular Receipts for the Cure of the Vives Take Tar tried Hogs-Grease Bay-Salt and Frankincense powdered of each as much as will suffice melt them together and with a Clowt fastned to a stick scald the place four or five Mornings together until the inflamed places do become soft and ripe then slit the Skin with your Incision-Knife and let forth the Corruption and heal up the Sore with tried Hogs-grease and Verdegrease made up into fine Powder melt them upon the Fire and let it not boyl more then a Waum or two then put in some ordinary Turpentine and so stir all together till it be cold and anoint the Sorrance with it till it be whole Another which is the best Cure for it Take a penniworth of Pepper beaten to fine Powder Swines Grease a spoonful the Juice of a Handful of Rue Vineger two spoonfuls mix them very well together and convey it equally into both the Eares of the Horse and so Tie or stitch them up then shake his Eares that the Medicine may sink downwards which done let him Blood in the Neck-Vein and Temple-Veins and this is an infallible Cure Another very good for the same The Vives are Cured several manner of ways as you find by the Receipts above but the most usual and common way that our Smiths generally use for the Cure of this Infirmity is for to let Blood on both sides the Neck-Veins then to sear the Swelling with a small hot Iron from the Root of the Ear down to the bottom of it till the Skin look yellow the manner and form of the Searing-Iroh must be somewhat like the shape and fashion of a great Arrows Head as you see by the Figure in the Margin with three or four small Lines or Stroaks on each side drawn from the Body of it After you have seared it to take out the Heat of the Fire and to make it sound again anoint it with fresh Butter or Hogs-Grease and he will do well What is good to Cure the Arraistes or Rats-tails which is a kind of Scratches To Ride him till he be warm which will make the Veins to swell and the better to appear then let him Blood on the Fet-lock Veins on both sides making him to bleed well and the next day after to wash the Sores with warm water and then clip away all the Hair from about the Sores and anoint the grieved place with this Ointment viz. Take green Copperas and Verdegrease of each two Ounces and of Common Honey four Ounces beat your Copperas and Verdegrease very small and so work them with your Honey to an Ointment and anoint the Sores daily with it till it be whole Things good in General for the Cure of the Wind-Cholick Alheal True-love or one Berry the Berries of Holly Holm or Hulver-Bush Juniper-Berries the Flowers of Lavender steeped in Wine wilde Parsnips Jack by the Hedge Winter and Summer Savory but the Summer is the best Burnet Saxafrage the leaves of the Willow-tree bruised and the Juice given with some Pepper in Beer Cardamum Fennegreek Hawes beaten to powder Rue Cloves Cinnamon an Onion peeled and Jagged and put it into his Fundament or to give him a Pipe of Tobaccho at his Fundament lighted and the Wind of his Body will draw it out If you intend to see more of this Nature look for Cholick Angelica Wood-bittony Mullen Mustard-seed Centaury A Plaister to lay upon the Wound to keep in the Taint or Salve Take Pitch Rozin Mastick Turpentine Hogs grease of each so much as will suffice melt them together and keep it for your use when you use it spread it upon Leather and cover the wound therewith this Salve doth infinitely comfort a Wound both green or old be the same Fistula or
Ounce of fresh Butter with the Yolks and Whites of two New laid Eggs Brew and beat all these very well together till you think they are cool enough to give him and Order him as in the former Receipt If your Horse be strong and lusty and that you think this is not a sufficient Dose strong enough for him you may either add more Aloes or else you may put into it as much of the powder of the Root of Jallop and Liquoris as will lie upon a Six-pence which will strengthen his Purge very much and make it work very freely kindly and safely Some more Physical Observations in the Giving of Purges or Scourings 1. When you give your Horse a Purge or Scouring either for Surfeit Cold or any other Illness let him fast about three houres before he takes it and about three or four houres after it 2. Let the first thing he eats after he hath fasted his limited time be a Mash of Malt or boiled Oats and let him not have it till his Physick hath wrought twice or thrice with him which will set it working so much the more freely 3. If you give him Hay first before you give him his Mash 't will so bind his Physick upon his Stomach that it will spoil the Operation and working quality thereof to the no little prejudice of his Health 4. The best time in my opinion is to give it him about four or five in the Afternoon for then 't is possible you may see the Working of it the next Morning which if you give it him in the Morning which is the usual time of giving a Horse Physick it may work in the Night and so prevent you of seeing the Operation thereof 5. According to the strength of your Horses Body and the quantity or quality of the Physick you give him will be the Operation of it for in some Horses it will work in twelve houres in others not in twenty four and again in others not in fourty eight 6. Let him have no Water till after his Physick hath done working and then let it be a little Aired before you give it him with a Handful or two of Wheat-bran put amongst it 7. If you fear your Horse is troubled with Bots or Wormes and that you find him to begin to dung loose after his Purging then put a Tobaccho-pipe at the same time ready lighted into his Fundament breaking off some part of it before you put it in lest it prove too long and the Wind from within his Body will draw it out as orderly as if it were taken at your Mouth so that the Smoke being thus received into his Body will so suffocate and choak them that it will make them to let go their hold which being loose will be the more easily thrown out by the Purge in his Excrements A Particular Receipt for Splaiting of the Shoulder which is a Torn Shoulder Put a Pair of streight Pastornes on his Feet keeping him in the Stable without disquieting of him then take of Dialthaea one pound of Sallet Oyl one Pint of Oyl de bay half a pound of fresh Butter half a pound Melt all these together in an Earthen Pot and anoint the grieved place therewith and also round about the inside of the Shoulder and within two or three days after both that place and all the Shoulder will swell and either prick it with a Launcet or Fleam in all the swelling places or else with a sharp hot Iron and then anoint it still with the Ointment before said but if you see that it will not go away but swell still and gather to a Head then Launce it where the Swelling doth gather most and is softest under your Finger and then Taint it with your Green Ointment which you may find in the First Part. Things good in General to Cure a Shoulder Pight which is a Shoulder out of Joynt To make him swim in a deep Water up and down a dozen Turnes for that will make the Joynt to go into its right place again then make two Pins of Ashen-wood the bigness of your Finger being sharp at the Points and five inches long then slit the Skin an Inch above the Point and an Inch beneath the Point of the Shoulder and thrust in one of these Pins from above downwards so as both the ends may equally stick with the Skin and if the Pin of Wood will not easily pass through you may make it way first with an Iron Pin then make other two holes cross to the first holes so as the other pin may cross the first pin right in the midst with a right Cross and the first pin should be somewhat flat in the midst to the intent that the other being round may press the better without stop and close juster together then take a piece of a little Line somewhat bigger then a Whip-cord and at one end make a Loop which being but over one of the Pins ends so that it may lie betwixt the Pins ends and the skin and fasten the last end with your pack-thread unto the rest of the Cord so as it may not slip And to do well both the Pins and the Cord should be first anointed with a little Hogs-grease then bring him into the Stable and let him rest the space of nine or ten days and let him lie down as little as may be and put a Pastorn shoo on the sore leg and at nine or ten days end you may anoint the place with a little Dialthea or Hogs-grease and so turn him out to Grass and let him run there till the pins be rotted off If you work him in a Cart after a Months time it will settle his shoulder the better and make him the more fit to ride The Cure for the Canker in the Mouth Take Allum half a pound Honey a quarter of a pint Columbine leaves and Sage leaves of each a handful boyl them together in three Pints of running Water until a Pint be consumed and wash the sore places therewith with a Rag Tied upon a stick till they bleed Morning and Night till they be Cured The Câ—ring of the Gigges Bladders or Flappes Pull out his Tongue and slit them with an Incision-Knife and thrust out the Kernels or Corruption and wash the place with Vineger and Salt or Allum-water and they will do well again But to prevent their coming at all is to wash it often with Wine Beer and Ale and so shall no Blister breed thereon nor any other Disease To make Vseful unto you those several Weights and Measures which are set down by some Authors in some Physical and obscure Characters and therein contained many Excellent Receipts Take them as followeth VIZ. ss The Character of the half-pound lb A pound lb ss A pound and a half â„¥ An Ounce â„¥ j ss One Ounce and a half Ê’ A Dram Ê’ ss A Dram and a half ℈ A Scruple ℈ ss A Scruple and a half gr A Grain which