doe say that the Italians use to take a spunge well dipped in strong wine vineger and bound to the Sore renewing it twice a day till the kernels doe rot then they open the neather most part of the softnesse and so let the corruption forth and then fill the hole with salt finely brayed and the next day they wash away the filth with warme water and the next day after they annoynt the Sore with Honey and Fich flower mingled together till it be whole This Cure I never made tryall of but it seemeth to me to be a very good and probable Cure Another for the Avives Take Tarre tryed Hogges grease Bay-salt and Frankinsence powdred of each so much as will suffice melt these on the fire all together then with a clout fastened to the end of a sticke boyling hot scald the places 4 or 5 mornings one after another untill the enflamed places doe become soft and ripe Then with your incision knife slit the skin and let forth the corruption then to heale up the sorances take tryed Hogges grease and Verdigrease made into fine powder melt them upon a gentle fire but suffer it not to boyle more then a waume or two at the most then take it off and put to it of ordinary Turpentine as much as will suffice and so stirre all together untill it be cold And herewith annoint the sorances daily till they be whole ✚ This is very good Master Markham in his Master piece hath a Cure for the Avives which he intituleth A most rare and certaine approved Medicine which will cure the Vives without either burning melting rotting or any such like violent exercise But as yet I did never experiment the same The cure is this Take a penniworth of pepper beaten to fine powder Swines grease a spoonefull the juyce of Rue a handfull and of Vineger two spoonfuls mixe all well together and convey it equally into both the eares of the Horse and so tye or stitch them up then shake his eares that the medicine may sinke downewards which done you shall let him bloud in the neck-veyne and in the temple-veine And this saith he is an infallible cure § 12. A. Hippoph VVHat disease is that which we doe call the Arraistes Hippos Arraistes is also a French Epitheton which is a disease we doe commonly call the Rat-tayles engendring in the heeles of a Horse not much unlike to the Scraches but that it is much more venimous and malignant It commeth of too much rest and the Keepers want of care in the not rubbing and dressing him as also by reason that the Horse standeth continually in the Stable his fore-feet being higher than his hinder-feet for by reason of his great rest and pampering the bloud corrupting in his body falles down into his hinder-legges and breedeth this disease which now we doe call the Arraistes Arraistes or Rat-Tayles Rat-tayle◠The best Cure for this Malady is first to let the Horse be ridden till he be warme whereby the veines will swell and the better appeare Let him bloud in the fetlocke veins on both sides making him to bleed well and the next day after wash the sores with warme water and then clip away all the hayre from about the Sores then annoynt the grieved places with this Oyntment viz. Take greene Coperas and Verdegreace of each two ounces and of common honey foure ounces beat your Coperas and Verde-greace very small and so worke them with your honey to a perfect unguent and herewith annoint the Sores daily till they be whole ✚ And thus we doe conclude this Chapter CHAP. V. § 1. B. Hippoph VVHat is your best way to breake and heale the backe of a Horse that is swolne Hippos We have many wayes to cure a Malady of this nature if the place be swelled and yet not ripe enough to be opened then apply that remedy which you shall finde taught you hereafter to resolve or ripen the same and when it is ripe put your incision knife unto it or a hot iron and so open it in the lowest part so as the putrifaction may the more easily passeaway then every morning inject this Lotion with a Seringe which is thus to be made viz. Backe swelled Take Honey-suckle leaves Plantine Ribwort Yarrow Bursa-Pastoris Knot-grasse and Cumphrey of each halfe a handfull boyle these in a quantity of running water till a moity be consumed then straine the herbs from the water casting away the hearbs and then set the water upon the fire again and so soon as it beginneth to boyle againe put into the said water hony of Roses one ounce Allum and Alkenet of each two drams stirre all these well together and let it boyle till these latter ingredients be well dissolved then take it from the fire and when it is cold put it into a cleane glasse keeping it close stopped for your use Vse this water every day five or sixe dayes together and it will cure any Sorance in the backe or other part of the body provided that to skin the sore you apply a rag made wet in the said water ✚ Another Receit I have wherewith I have cured many galled backs and other sorances which is as followeth Take water and salt and boyle them well together and first wash the sore place therewith Then take Pepper made into very fine powder and strew it upon the sore it will heale it in very short time ✚ A third I have much more soveraigne than the two former which cureth not onely all galled backs but any other wound whatsoever Take Rosin and common Pitch of each sixe ounces Masticke and Incense of each one ounce Turpentine Galbanum Bolearmonacke of each three ounces melt dissolve and incorporate all these together upon a gentle fire and as they doe begin to coole make them up into rolles and when you would use this Salve spread it upon a cloath or leather somewhat thin but if you be to use it without either cloath or leather to any outward part that is not yet broken then lay it on much thicker than you use to doe plaister-wise and whilst it is warme clap flocks of the same colour upon it This Emplastrum as it cureth any swelling gall wound sore or hurt so it ripeneth breaketh and healeth all impostumations biles and pustils It is also a most excellent defensative plaister for the staying and drying up of all evill humours and also very soveraign for asswaging of swellings ✚ Another Receit I have taught me by a worthy Knight but I never made use thereof Take the leaves of Asmart and wash them and lay them all over the place and albeit you ride him every day yet will he heale very fast But if he doe remaine in the Stable without exercise if you put the water of the leaves upon the place it will heale him speedily Another Receit I have which was taught me by a French Marishall howbeit I made no tryall thereof but he
salt or other filth and wash it so long in sundry waters in some great bowle until it come to be very white Then melt onely this oyntment and so keep it for your use wherewith annoynt the places grieved and in short time it will cure them ✚ This I had of a famous French Marishall and I have often used it and I ever found it to be most soveraigne for all sorts of burnings But if Hogges grease may not be had then take the fat of Bacon and wash it well and it is marvellous good ✚ Another Take fresh butter and the whites of egges of each as much as will suffice beat them well together till you bring them to a formall unguent and annoint the places burned therewith and it will speedily take away the fire and cure them soundly ✚ This is also speciall good Another Take a stone of quick-lime which must be well burned that which is best burned will be lightest dissolve it in faire water and when the water is settled so as all the Lime remaineth in the bottome straine the cleerest of the water thorow a fine cleane linnen cloath then put unto this water either the oyle of Hemp-seed or of the oyle of Olive of like quantity with the water and so beating them well together you shall have an excellent unguent most precious for all sorts of burnings And the nature of these three unguents be to leave no scarres Wherefore we apply them for most soveraign remedies as well for man as beast in cases of this nature ✚ This also I have often tryed and I have found them all to be most singular § 19. B. Hippoph HOw doe you take away bunches knots warts and wens from a Horse Hippos These kindes of sorances doe come to a Horse by meanes of much ranknesse of bad bloud which is engendred of peccant humours which humours doe proceed of naughty meat Bunche◠Knots 〈◊〉 They are so apparant to the eye that any man may point at them with his finger The way to free your Horse of them is first take up such veines as you may know to feed them then shave away the hayre from about the places and for foure dayes together lay Aegiptiacum to them at foure dayes end wash and bathe the places with strong wine vineger made hot then take wine vineger one pinte green coperas and Dyers gals of each foure ounces cantharides two ounces bay salt one handfull make these into fine powder and let them boyle on the fire with the vineger a little and so wash the sorances therewith scalding hot and every third day continue thus to doe till you perceive them to dry up Let the scurfe fall away of its own accord at leisure if any more shall happen to grow forth afterwards apply the same medicine againe albeit it was formerly cured by the same thing yet I have not seen any Horse to fall into the same malady againe and during the time you have him in cure let him not come in any water but keep him in the stable warme ✚ Another cure is this First as before shave away the hayre and take up the veins which feed those sorances then sixe dayes after let him bloud in the heeles to draw away the humours downwards then wash and bathe him well with hot vineger which done take a quart of oyle of Nuts and Verdegreace powdred two ounces and a quarter of a pinte of Inke mixe all these well together and apply it cold to the places rubbing and bathing them well therewith and if the knots and warts doe not begin to dry up at the first dressing then must you begin again every fourth day untill such time as they be throughly cured ✚ Another Take course honey one pound Verdegreace in powder three ounces mixe these well together with the finest wheat flowre and so bring it to an oyntment and after you have cleansed the sorances as before is shewed you apply this oyntment to the place with a rowler if there be any warts among the knots cut them away cleane before you doe apply the said oyntment and thus doing ten or twelve dayes every other day he will be perfectly cured ✚ Another Shave away the hayre and take up the veins as aforesaid then wash and bath the place well then take mutton sewet mallowes and brimstone make a decoction hereof when you have very well bathed the sorances with the said decoction take the substance thereof and putting it between two linnen cloaths make it fast to the place over night and in the morning take it away which done apply unto the place this unguent viz. Take vineger and mutton suet the gumme of the Pine-tree new waxe and rosin of each like much melt all these together but put in your Gum last and so annoint the sorances with a feather twice every day till they be whole Of this Cure I never made tryall but it seemeth to be a good one You must not forget in every of these Cures to take up such veines which in your judgement you may finde to feed those sorances and to shave away the hayre from about them cleane Now with this other Cure I will conclude Wash and bathe the places with the decoction last before mentioned and lay the substance to the sores Take then new Waxe Turpentine and Gum Arabicke of each like much melt them to an unguent and herewith annoint the sorances during which time let him come into no water and the Poults of Mallowes c. must be every night applyed till he be whole Another Take and to conclude blew slate and brimstone of each four ounces Verdigrease one ounce made into fine powder then take fresh butter four pound melt it in a small kettle or Posnet and so soon as the butter is molten put into it all the former ingredients and so let them boyle wel and when you have brought it to a perfect unguent take it off and keep it for your use And when you would use it warm thereof upon a chafing dish and coles and annoynt your Horse therwith upon the sorance and that but once and it will suffice But you must let him bloud the day before you doe annoint him in the necke veine And at the end of eight dayes take a quantity of cold Lee and three ounces of blacke sope and wash the sorance therewith This quantity of oyntment will serve but onely for two Horses Of this Receit I never had occasion to make tryall but it was taught me by a famous Marishall of France who commended it unto me for an extraordinary good Receit and truely it seemes to me so to be CHAP. VI. §. 1. C. Hippophylus WHat is good to bee applyed to a Horse that hath cast himselfe in his Halter Hippos This commonly commeth to a Horse which being tyed down to the manger his eare or Poule itching with his hinder Foote scratcheth the the place that itcheth so as when he taketh away his Foote
in a dry and warme place where they may not give againe and when you would use them take so much as will suffice and beat it in a Morter with the Sirop of Colts soote and the powder of refined Sugar still working it till you have brought it to be a perfect Conserve and so given to your horse in good sweet Sacke or Muskadine The first of these two to wit the Simple is of most excellent use for it helpeth any ordinary cold or stopping it comforteth the Lunges enlargeth his Winde purgeth the Head from all filthy matter and dissolveth many other obstructions as well in the Body and Head But the Compound or Conserve worketh better effects in the Body of the Horse especially if the Malady be old and dangerous or if there be any taint in the Lunges Liver or inward parts This Conserve in time by frequent use thereof will cure all dry Coughs which are held to be incurable it helpeth the heaving of the Belly and Flankes it causeth the Horse to take his Wind kindly and temperately and freeth him of his dry Cough which before did greatly annoy him but if you have not these conserves take this other Receipt little inferiour to the former for these Maladies Take of the sirop of Colts-foote one ounce of Elecampane rootes dryed Anniseeds and Licoris of each halfe an ounce all made into fine powder browne Sugar Candy powdred one ounce which must be divided into two parts then take sweete Butter so much as will suffice and so make this into three Pills good and stiffe which done rowle them in the other moyty of your powdred Sugar Candy and so give them your Horse fasting then ride him gently for halfe an houre and after set him up warme and let him fast three houres after causing him to be well rubbed let him drinke no cold water unlesse it be with exercise and let his Hay be sprinkled with water and his Oats wet in strong Ale or else with Beere ✚ Another very good Take the cankerous Mosse of an old Pale or of the lymbes of an old Oake two handfulls chop and shred it small and boyle it in a pottle of new Milke and with it a roote of Alecompane let these boile together till halfe be consumed then straine it and presse the Mosse and Roote very well which done put to it of sweete Butter the quantity of a Ducke-Egge and so give it him in a morning fasting bloud warme and ride him moderately an houre after then set him up cloath him and litter him warme and order him as is accustomed with Horses in Physicke Let him have this drink three mornings together and it will cure both his Cold and Cough wet or dry or his Poze if he have it But if you find your Horse to be stopped in the Head and that he voydeth filth and stinking matter out from his Nose then shall you every morning administer this fume Take of Auripigmentum and of Colts-foote made into powder of each two drammes then with Venice Turpentine worke them into a stiffe paste and make them into small Cakes the breadth of a sixpence and dry them a little and then put fire into a Chafing-dish with coales and so put one of these Cakes upon the coales covered with a Tunnell and so fume him and this not only during his Physicke but at other times after and let his drink be either sweet mashes or white water ✚ Another if your Horse hath a new taken cold then give him this Caudle which I have often used and do find it to be very good Take the yolkes of foure new layd Egges and beate them well together and dissolve them with a quart of good Ale then take three good Nutmegs with a little Anniseeds Licoras made all into fine powder and as much Pepper in fine powder as you can take up upon a sixpence put these into the Ale with a peece of sweet Butter so much as will suffice and two spoonefulls of ordinary Treacle and of browne Sugar Candy foure ounces warme all these upon the fire till the Treacle and Butter be molten then give it him bloud warme foure or five mornings together and this is an infallible cure ✚ Another very good Take a pottle of sweet Wort three heads of Garlick pilled of ordinary Honey halfe a pound boyle these till one moiety bee consumed and give it your Horse three mornings together Then for three mornings together after give him these Pills Take Boxe leaves and Harts-tongue of each so much as will suffice stamp them well together and with sweet Butter make it into Pills and so every morning give him three of these Pils ✚ But if he hath a cold which breaketh and runneth from him then must you be carefull to keepe his Head and Pole warme by putting on a double Hood and every Morning fasting ride him with two long Goose-feathers put up into either Nostrill well dipped before hand in Oyle de Bay and with a strong Packthread from the ends of the quils fastned over his head like a Headstall of a Bridle so as the feathers may not get forth and fasten also to his Bit or Snaffle one Rooteor two of Polipodium having beene all night before laine steeped in the oyle of Spike and every time you ride him annoint the Bit thus before hand prepared with the said Oyle and when he commeth home put upon his pole his double hood and rub him against the hayre all over especially his Neck and Pole for friction in this case is most soveraigne then whilst he is yet warme perfume his Nose with Frankinsence Storax and Beniamin of each like much do this nine daies together and let his drinke be white water for all Rhumes having had time to worke their malice will become dangerous yea and many times curelesse ✚ Now if your Horse hath taken an extreame cold then Take Cloves Nutmegges Ginger Galls or the fruit of the Oake and Cardimums of each like quantity so much as will suffice and of Fennell-seeds more than any one of the other Ingredients make them into fine powder and searce them then put two Spoonefulls of this powder to a quart of Sack or muskadine and straine these into two penny-worth of English Saffron and the yelkes of two new laid Egges well beaten together give this to your horse bloud warme fasting and let him have none other drinke than white water for three or foure daies after and let his Hay be sprinkled with water and every day at noone give him the blades of reed or the leaves of Sallows to eate out of your hand for they be very good for him and cooling for his body do this divers mornings together and it will not only cleanse his Cold but also open his Pipes and set his wind at liberty But if your horse have an inward cold which lyeth lurking in his Lunges or Stomacke then give him this Medicine Take Oyle de Bay and good Tar of
riding and great toyle you give your Horse cold water drawn out of a Well which being much colder then either River or Pond water doth more chill the Horse inwardly whereby he is much more distempered causing him to quake and to shake exceedingly after his drinke which occasioneth crudities and an evill habit in the stomacke which doth beget and ingender an ague or feaver wherefore after sweating and great labour I doe advise you that whatsoever is given him be first set over the fire to take away the chilnesse whereby your Horse may take the lesse damage for that feavers taken of this nature doe commonly prove pestilent feavers whose nature is to infect all his fellowes which are in the same stable or roome with him if he be not either speedily removed from his consorts or else suddenly cured and the reason hereof is most evident for that when as a Horse hath been al the whole day travelled especially in the winter and brought into the stable all hot and sweating when in short time after his bloud and pores begin to be setled and to return to his heart again and to his intrals then if you give him cold water you may instantly perceive him to fall into a formall quivering and shaking for a time which being once passed over you shall see him most palpably assume a most extreame and violent burning and peradventure after fals into a most desperate sweating whereby is most easie to be found in him a generall distemperature throughout his whole body together with a formall and dangerous feaver wherefore if the Ferrier be not the more expert it may stick closer unto him and remain longer by him then a bushell of Oats will do But a feaver which doth proceed elther from the corruption of the bloud or from the contagion of the ayre according as I have before intimated that I say is most frequent albeit not so well known to all Ferriers and I am able to affirme thus much of these kinde of feavers out of mine own long experience that they are of that extreame violence and so malignant and their poyson of that infinite force as that if through their own violence they be not able of themselves to bring the creature visited therewith to his end yet will these convert their malice into other mortall maladies and diseases which will in time prove as noxious to wit into the Yellowes Stavers Glanders Dropsie Consumption Farcin c. unto which a pestilent feaver is evermore the precursor insomuch as if the Ferrier be not very skilfull and cautelous in observing and knowing the true symptomes of these kinde of diseases he may easily in stead of labouring to effect a Cure through his misprision miscarry therein §. 9. F. Hippoph VVHat be the true symptomes or signes whereby to know a Feaver Hippos If you doe observe him well Feaveâ— to knoâ— you shall perceive him so soon as he beginneth to be feaverish and when the fit first commeth upon him to hang or hold down his head and if at first comming it beginneth with a cold fit then will he quake and tremble and when his cold fit is over then will he glow and burn throughout his whole body his breath will be very hot and he will fetch his winde thicke and his nostrils will be very open and his flankes will beat thick he will forsake his meat and reele oft times as he goeth his eyes will be swelled they will water and be matterative he will fall away and consume in his flesh his stones will hang low he will desire and offer oft to lye down and yet being laid he will rise suddenly againe he will have great desire to drinke neither will he drink much and yet you would thinke that all the water in the Thames would not be sufficient to quench his thirst for he will covet evermore to keep his mouth in the water albeit he will drinke very little and his sleepe will goe from him And these are the best most certaine and apparant symptomes that I doe know of a Feaver § 10. F. Hippoph VVHat are the best cures for these ordinary Feavers Hippos If the feaver be quotidian and daily Feaver Ordinarâ— then Take the yolkes of three new laid egges and beat them well with seven spoonfuls of the best Aqua vitae and put unto it of ordinary Treacle a spoonfull and so making it bloud warme over a few hot embers give it him and then take his backe and ride him untill hee doe begin to sweat and then bring him into the stable and cloath wispe and litter him warme so as he may sweat an houre in the stable but then coole him by degrees and let him fast three houres after but let him bloud before you drench him in the necke and mouth and give him white water or Mashes This drinke would be given him one houre before the fit commeth ✚ This is very good Another Take white Wine one pinte of Aloes one ounce made into fine powder of Agaricke halfe an ounce Anniseeds and Licoris of each one dram in fine powder and adde thereto of life-honey one spoonfull let all these be made warme upon the fire and so give him bloud warme then take his back and ride him into a good sweat and set him up cloath him litteâ— him and stop well his body head and breast and let him sweat so two houres then by degrees coole him and when he is cold let him be well rubbed and cloathed up againe warme but not to sweate any more and let him stand upon the Trench three houres after his sweating then unbit him and wash his tongue and mouth with Alume Vineger Sage and water boyled togather that done give him a little Wheate straw to eate and an houre after a gallon of sweet dry and cleane Oats well dressed and sifted but lay not all at once before him but three or foure handfuls at a time continuing thus to feed him till hee hath eaten up his whole gallon and at night give him a sweet Mash And the next morning let him bleed at the neck mouth the quantity of a quart or lâ—sse if the bloud bee good but if you doe find the bloud to be blacke thick hot inflamed yellowish frothy or otherwise evill coloured take then from him two quarts after keepe him warme and let him purge and for foure or five dayes after give him eyther warme mashes or white water ✚ This I have also knowne to bee very good Another First let him Bloud in the Neck and Mouth then Take Germander Sallet-oyle and life-Honey of each foure ounces of Gumme Draganet dry red-Roses of each one ounce put these pounded and chopped very small into good Ale a quart and warme it and so give it him then ride him till he sweate and order him as in the former cure Of this I did never make tryall Another Take of the tops of Time one handfull boyle these in a quart of
Feaver or a Surfet to the great perill of his life The signes are knowne by the swelling Lâ—gs swelled and therefore to annoynt them with Acopum were very good But the best cure is first to take up the thigh veines then with your Fleame to prick the places most swelled and hottest in sundry places especially be low to the end that the corrupt bloud may issue forth then Take of white Wine-lees one pint of Comin bruised one ounce boyle then together to a pultis with Wheate flower three handfuls then with a cloth apply it to the place good and warme renewing it every day once if in two or three daies it doth draw it to a head as it is very probable it will do then lanch it and heale it up either with Shooe-makers waxe laid on upon a Playster of leather or also with a salve made of the yolke of an Egge Whete flower and common honey well wrought together to a salve which you must also apply Plaister-wise ✚ But if it do not come to a head and yet the swelling continue then Take of Pitch and of Virgin-wax of each three ounces Rosin half a pound of the iuyce of Isop and of Galbanum of each half an ounce and of Mirrah-secondary half a pound of Bdellium-Arabicum Populeon and of the drops of Storax of each halfe an ounce and of Deeres-suet halfe a pound boyle all these together in an earthen Pot and when it is cold take of Bitumen halfe a pound Bole-Armoniack and of Costus of each one ounce and halfe make all these into fine powder and then incorporate them well with the other and so boyle them all over againe very well that done poure this whole mixture or Medicine into cold water and so make it up into rowles like a salve for Playsters and when you are to use it spread thereof upon Playsters of Leather which must bee so large as to cover the Legges full so far as the swellings are which if any thing can do it this will asswage the swelling and give very much strength and comfort the Sinewes and Nerves neyther is this Playster to be removed so long as it will remaine on ✚ This I have applyed to many Horses very much annoyed with swolne-Legges and brought them to their former smallnesse when as Ferriers have spent much time upon the Cure and given it over at last But if the Swelling do fall into the hinder-Legs or into all foure-Legs together being but a bad Sorance causing them to burne and swell exceedingly and the hayre to stare the cause whereof coming as I have before said from immoderate Riding heat and labour whereby the grease melting falleth downe into the Legges by reason the Horse cannot voyd it in his Excrements or else being over-hot he is washed or negligently set up without sufficient store of litter and rubbing so as the taking cold the bloud with the grease setleth in the Legges and there congealeth and so causeth them to swell This sorance also commeth by having his feet beaten especially in the Summer with being ridden and galloped upon hard ground which first occasioneth wind-gals and those also causeth the legs to swell which truely is the worst kinde of swelling of all other by reason that lamenesse doth immediately follow it unlesse great Art and diligence be speedily applyed for prevention thereof Wherefore the signes being so apparant needs no remonstrance and therefore I will passe on to the Cure which is thus Take Populeum Nervell Hogs grease of each one ounce Legs â—led incorporate them very well together cold and annoynt the sorance therwith morning and evening foure dayes together and at foure dayes end take of Claret Wine lees one quart boyle it upon the fire with so much Bran as will bring it to a Poultesse apply this to the place grieved plaister-wise with a cloth good and hot for foure or five daies more renewing it every day once and in short time he will be sound again ✚ This is a most excellent receit which I have often experimented Another The swelling of the legges may be easily cured if in the beginning they be often times in the day laved and bathed in cold water unlesse the malady come of too great a surfet wherefore if this of cold water will not doe it then Take of common honey one pound Turpentine common Gum meale of Linseed meale of Fenugrick of each foure ounces Bay berries made into very fine powder and seraced three ounces mixe and boyle all these together well and when you take it from the fire put unto it of white Wine one pinte and then boyle it over againe till it doe become thicke spreade this upon a cloath reasonable hot and wrap it about the members swelled and doe not renew it above once in a weeke and it will cure them ✚ This is a certaine and most approved Cure Another If you take up the veines and make them to bleed below and not above and then rope up the legges with thumbands of soft Hay wet in cold water and then cast more water upon them in short time he will be sound and well againe ✚ This is also very good § 5. L. Hippoph VVHat is good to cure the Leprosie Hippos This is a moyst mainge very infectious which commeth by meanes of great surfets taken by over-riding which is very easie to be seen and known and therefore needs no further description The cure therefore is first let him bleed well in the necke then scrape away the scurfe with an old Curry-combe Oyster-shell Hayre-cloth or some such like thing till the sorance doe looke raw and that it be ready to bleed then annoynt the raw places with this oyntment Leprosâ— elephaâ— malady Take Arsnick or Resalgar and tryed Hogs grease the Arsnick or Resalgar being first beaten unto very fine powder incorporate these well together to make them into a perfect oyntment then tye up the head of your Horse so high to the Rack as that he may not be able to bite rub or lick himselfe and so annoynt the places therewith and cause the oyntment to sinke the better in by himselfe and so annoynt the places therewith and cause the oyntment to sinke the better in by holding a hot bar of iron neere to the place as you annoint him and let him stand so tyed three houres and then wash away the Vnguent with the strongest Chamber-lye you can get and wash him so throughly that you may be assured you leave none of the oyntment upon the Horse and then untye him and give him meat and thus dresse him once every day till the sores be quite dryed up ✚ This is also good for Scratches and Kibed-heeles §. 6. L. Hippoph VVHat is good to kill Lice in a Horse Hippos Lice commonly commeth to a horse when he is very poore especially when he runneth abroad in the Winter time in some Wood Coppice or places where are many high trees for that the
coate at usuall times like as other Horses doe he will loose his mettle and become very lunt and his eyes will run with water and matter and his stones will swell in a word he will be out of ioynt that is out of good temper throughout every part and member of his Body Other causes there bee of this Malady whereof I have intreated before in lib. 2. cap. 6. § 9. let C. to which place I do referre you neverthelesse I will give you a Receipt or two which I have often used and doe know them to be right good Swelled cods Take Turmerick and long-Pepper of each a penny-worth Anniseeds and Fenugrick of each a halfe penny-worth sweet Butter so much as will suffice boyle all these being first powdred in Ale three pints till one pint be consumed and then take it from the fire and straine it and dissolve into it in London Treacle one ounce and so well brewed give it your Horse bloud-warme let him have this drinke sundry times and let otherwise his drinke be white water and sometimes a sweete Mash till he be well ✚ This is very good Another Take of the best Tarre two spoonefuls life-honey one spoonefull black-sope the quantity of a Nutmegge Diapente one ounce and of Bay-salt two spoonefuls mix all these well together and convey it into two or three Egges-shels the tops being so opened as that you may but get forth the meate then fill up the shels with this Medicine and so put them downe his throate in a morning fasting and give him presently after it two or three hornefuls of Ale or Beere to send downe the Medicine the better but the surplusage of what remaineth of the Medicine let it be spred upon the roofe of his mouth doe thus every morning for eight dayes together and when he hath taken his Medicine let him be ridden gently an houre or two and then set him up warme cloathed and littered and set him upon the Trench three houres and let his drinke bee white water and sometimes a sweet Mash both then and for sometime after ✚ This is also very good § 23. S. Hippoph HOw doe you take off a Spongy-Wart Hippos A Spongy-Wart Spongy-wart is that very thing which our Ferriers cal an Anberry which is kind of wen which swelleth somtimes to a great bignesse sometimes againe it will bee but small but then commonly they are many and do grow into clusters this commeth by meanes of peccant humours caused of bad bloud and that horse that is inclined to Warts will seldome be ever free of them for take them off in one place and he will put forth more in other parts of his body but to breed of eyther Horse or Mare inclined to them I will diswade you for most commonly hee will put them forth about the eyes yea and oft-times so neere to the eye it selfe as to endanger the sight thereof They be easily knowne by reason they be so apparently seene and therefore need no further description The cure is It were good first to purge him and to take bloud from that Master-veine which you doe finde doth most feed them as well to divert as to stop the malice of that bad humour which doth occasion the malady If the Wart or Anberry be farre enough extant from the skin then tye two of his strongest hayres taken from his tayle hard about the sorance so fast as you possibly can and so as that it may not loosen and in few dayes it will fret and eate it cleane off which done strew upon it the powder of Verdegrece to kill it at the root and after heale it up againe with your green salve But if you cannot come to tye it either with hayre or threed then either with your incision knife cut it away close to the skin or else burn off with an hot iron and then first kill the fire with Turpentine and Hogs grease molten together and after heale it up as before is prescribed you ✚ This is very good § 23. S. Hippoph VVHat is good to be applyed to a Horse that is Surbated Hippos Two wayes a horse doth surbate the first is when a horse is newly backt and weighed upon his first shooing and when the owner of the horse will not have patience with him but will presently journey him upon hard and stony wayes his hoofes and feet being yet but tender to what they will be afterwards and so the horse must needs surbate The second way is when a horse hath of himselfe bad feet and is also either ill shod or else his shooes be very thinne worne or that they be too narrow or too short and that he be ridden upon bad hard stony and rough wayes in such like cases your horse will surbate you shall finde it by the handling of his feet especially the next day after a long journey by reason he will not stand still long upon his feet without hitching them up and removing them for that they will be so sore as that he will not know how or where to place them and you shall also perceive him to be surbated by reason that after a journey he will lye much standing being painefull unto him and in his lying you shall see him covet to lye and stretch himself all along upon one side and if you feele the coffins of his hoofes you shall finde them to burne very hot and his hoofes to be very dry The cure is very facile Take two new laid Egges Surbated feet and after you have well picked his fore-feet breake them raw into the soles and then stop them up with Oxe or Cow dung and he will be well by the next morning ✚ This is an approved good cure § 24. S. Hippoph HOw doe you cure a Horse that is stifled Hippos This mischiefe commeth accidentally to wit either by a straine in leaping or by a slip in travell or by the stroke of some other horse and thus the bone is either out of its place or else the joynt is very much strained or hurt The signes to know it is if the bone be out you may see it plainely for besides his halting the bone dislocated will so stick out as that the horse can do no more then touch the ground with his toe til it be put in again and the way to put it in is thus First tye down his head to the Manger then take a cord and fasten it to the pasterne of the stifled Stifled legge and draw his legge forwards and so the bone will come right by helping it with your hand which being in your care then must be to keep it in with your hand and then tye the other end of the cord to the Rack so as he may not put back his legge to dislocate the bone any more for an houre or two after till it be setled and dressed Wherefore let his Keeper stand by him all the time lest the horse should lye down
mouth to be of a thick and duskish colour and not so cleere and sanguine as before when he was not visited with any such infirmity both which are so mortall especially the latter as that if very great care be not taken whereby to pry into its symptomes the Horse may fall downe upon a sudden as I have often seen and known even as he travelleth and dye or else he appearing to be sound and healthy and to eate his meat like as he was accustomed over night when you left him comming again unto him in the morning you may finde him dead stiffe and cold And the origen of this malady commeth principally of unkindely and unnaturall heats given him by most violent and intemperate riding whereby the Liver becommeth inflamed the Liver the Bloud Gall and the Spleen which causeth choller to have soveraignty and dominion over the other humours and so engendreth this perilous disease which seldome bringeth a lingring or languishing death but that which endeth him suddenly and therefore it is most requisite that the greater eye and care be had unto it The best symptomes how to know it is thus Your Horse will be dry in his body mouth and nostrils being marvellous hot through the abundance of choller that reigneth in him and he will be very gaunt in his belly towards the flanks he will be also very faint and not onely sweat upon every the least motion but also as he standeth in the Stable his eyes the insides of his lips mouth and tongue will be yellow as Saffron and he will seldome lye down and being layd he will sometimes grone The cure First let him bloud in the neck and mouth and let him bleed well then give him this drink Take of Turmerick and long Pepper of each one penniworth Yellowes Anniseeds and Licoris in fine powder and searced of each halfe a spoonfull Selendine the leaves and roots one handfull chop stamp and straine the Selendine and so put all these together into strong Ale one quart warm this upon the fire and in the warming adde unto it of London Treacle one ounce and of sweet Butter the quantity of an Egge and give it him bloud warm and after keep him warme and give him white water and he will do well ✚ This is very good Another First bloudy him as before and then Take Turmerick Myrrah Ivory or Harts-horn of each halfe an ounce Saffron one penny worth make all these into fine powder and searce them and put unto it of the juyce of Selendine a good quantity put all these into Muskadine one pinte Sack or Ale and let it boile upon the fire a walm or two then put unto it of sweet Butter as much as will suffice and of London Treacle one ounce and so give it him bloud warm but let him first be raked This is very good Another First bloudy him as before then Take of white wine one quart of Saffron two drams and of Turmerick halfe an ounce and a good quantity of the juyce of Selendine give him this bloud warm and keep him warm and give him white water ✚ This is very good Another First let him bloud as you are prescribed before Then Take of sweete Wine one pinte of stronge Ale and Beere one quart and put unto it of the iuyce of Salendine six spoonefuls and of the iuyce of Rue two spoonefuls and let all these boyle upon the fire a little then straine into it of English Saffaron halfe an ounce and put into it of life hony three ounces and so give it him bloud-warme then leap his backe and so ride or else walke him a foot-pace a quarter of an houre then set him up warme letting him to fast three houres after and after give him meat and a sweete Mash or white-water ✚ This is very good Another Bloudy him as before Then Take of the best life hony halfe a pound of Saffaron made into fine powder and of the powder of Fenugrick of each so much as will suffice incorporate these with your Hony to a stiffe paste and so make thereof three Pils and dipping them into Salet-oyle give them to your Horse which after he hath taken ride or walke him gently an houre then set him up warme and order him as before ✚ This is a particular good Pill Another First let him bloud as before Then Take of white-Wine one quart or Ale to the same quantity and put therein of Saffaron one ounce and Turmerick one ounce both made into fine powder with the iuyce of Salendine so much as will suffice and give him this bloud-warme and order him as before ✚ This is also very good §. 2. Y. Hippoph VVHat cure have you for the mattering of the Yard Hippos This disease commeth commonly in Covering time by overmuch spending upon Mares for that the heat of the Mares the Horse his own heate and Coity doth burne the Horse giving him the running of the reines as we may truly terme it And the signes to know it is you shall perceive the end of the Yard to be swelled when he pisseth you may observe him to do it with much paine and you may also see at other times the Yard to drop with yellow matter The cure Give him first a purge prescribed you in lib. 2. cap. 16. § 14. let P. it is the first purgation which will ease his pain in pissing then the next day Take Roch-Allome one ounce and white-Wine one pinte boyle them till the Allome be dissolved then bloud-warme iniect this Lotion with a Syringe putting it up into his Yard so far as may be foure or five times a day till he be well ✚ This is a perfect cure nor shall you need any other FINIS Imprimatur THOMAS VVYKES A Table of the Contents The First Booke The Contents of all the Chapters contained in the first Book THE Introduction Chap. 1. page 1 Of the best manner of breeding Chap. 2. page 4 How to make and order your Stable Chap. 3. page 10 Of the marks colours and shapes of Horses Chap. 4. page 15 Of the office of the Groome and Rider Chap. 5. page 25 The Second Booke The Contents of all the Chapters contained in the second Booke OF what poynts consisteth the office of the Ferrier handled Dialogue-wise as also a formall examine of the Ferrier chap. 1. p. 34 Of the causes of sicknesse in generall and the causes of health and long life chap. 2. page 46 Of such things which are of necessity to be known by every expert Ferrier before he doe adventure to administer chap. 3. page 55 The manner of handling the particular cures chap. 4. page 64 The Index Chap. 4. A. ACopum and its vertues page 66 Arman 1. page 67 Arman 2. page 68 Ach in the head page 69 Aegyptiacum 1. page 71 Aegyptiacum 2. ibid. Accloy page 72 All diseases a Cataplasme 1 ibid. All diseases a Cataplasme 2. page 73 All diseases 3. ibid. S. Anthonies fire
be in danger to be lamed or spoyled by some sudden slip whereof I have had often experience which a pitched Stable is not so subject unto Secondly the planks often times shrinking the Horse especially if he be a stirrier who is accustomed to curvet in the Stable may easily breake a plank and his foot getting into a hole or between the planks the horse plunging and striving may easily breake his legge before he shall be able to get it forth whereof I have more than once been oculatus testis Thirdly when you put forth your horses to run at grasse all or the most part of Summer during which time the scorching heats wil so siccicate and dry the planks which will cause them to warp and the pinnes which holdeth them down to the joyces will rot and so the planks give way especially when horses who not being handled in some moneths before becomming wild rammage and unruly are newly brought into the Stable who feeling the planks to move yeeld and give way under them will fall from starting thereat to slinging leaping bounding and plunging till they have dislocated the planks and thereby have endangered both themselves the residue of their fellowes and those who might come to their help and succour which is a thing very frequent in a flore of this nature Fourthly whereas you may imagine that a planked flore is warmer then a paved or pitched I doe know the contrary for your pitched flore hath no vaults or channels under them like as hath your planked wherewith to convey the water which passeth from the horses hy which meanes the horse lyeth over a moyst and dampish place and vault and besides that the evill savour of the horse-pisse will be evermore in their nose which is most unwholesome noysome and many times the cause of much infirmity neither can it in reason be so warme as is the pitched flore for that the chinkes and awger-holes bored through the planks which must alwaies be kept open to let forth the urine doth give way to the cold wind which continually ascendeth up to the horse as well lying as standing cannot but doe him much dammage I doe therefore affirme that if your Groome have a care to litter his horse well so as he may lye soft and warme which is a prime property appertaining to his office your horse will then prosper and like much better upon a pitched flore then he can upon a planked provided your flore be laid even not higher before than behind more then so much that may make the water to avoyd to his hinder feet where there ought to be a small gutter to cause it to passe away for in raising your flore so much I doe abstract from the ancient ill custome by reason that a horse standeth higher before then he doth behind his hinder legges will swell and so he becommeth lame besides it giveth him a taint in the backe and kidneyes and to conclude his long standing in this uneasie manner begetteth in the poor beast much pain and griefe and this occasioneth unto him which would not otherwise be the putting forth of Windgals Pains Scratches and such like noysome sorances Another thing may peradventure be thought strange which I have handled in the former chapter where I intreat of breeding Of the timâ— of foling in that I would have the time of the Mares foling to be either in December or Ianuary this being in the very depth of winter as well when the season is commonly coldest and when little or no grasse is to be had so as of necessity the Mare must be housed and fed with hard meat whereby her milke will be in so small a proportion as either to endanger the starving of the Colt or else at leastwise keep him so poor and feeble as not to be able to grow thrive or prosper to any purpose To satisfie this scruple I say from long experience that the winter season for a Mare to fole in beyond all peradventure is the very best as well for the Mare as the Colt supposing she be kept in a warme house and as for her milke she will have great plenty and that much better and more nourishing than that milke which the Colt shall sucke from his damme at grasse so as thereby the Colt shall be more lusty strong healthy greater of bone and stature The Colt better noâ—rished in tâ—â— Stable thâ— at grasse 〈◊〉 winter better able to endure hardinesse better knit cleaner limbed more neatly joynted and hooved and keep his flesh better than that Colt that is foled in May Iune or any the hotter moneths and my reason is that albeit grasse causeth greater plenitude of milke which I deny not yet is not the same so good and nourishing for the milke which the Cost sucketh at grasse is very thin and watry and albeit winter food begetteth not so great a quantity of milke yet the same will be thicker more substantiall and of greater nutriment the Mare being very well fed which will feed the Colt very fat and make him more lusty and strong as I have said then if the Mare the whole Summer and Winter through and in all the extremity of the heats and colds had been kept abroad Moreover the Colt besides the milke he draweth from the Mare will also feed with her upon Hay Oates Bran and such like food which will do him much pleasure But some againe will say that their teeth are so tender as that they will not be able to chew and eate such kinde of hard meates I answer they are very much mistaken for not onely my selfe alone but sundry others have with me been eye-witnesses of the contrary therefore this needs no further solution And wheras it hath been objected unto me that that Colt which is foled in May or Solstice in that season the Mare will have store of milke thus much I doe ingenuously confesse but then what manner of milke will it be None other then such as shall be marvellous thin and watrish as I said before which abundance will also faile even when the Colt hath most need thereof that is when the Colt beginneth to come up to some strength and at what time he should receive most nutriment to wit when the winter commeth on whose Snows Frosts cold raines and Flouds will not a little nip and pinch the Colt and enfeeble the Mare in such terrible and desperate manner that she will want her former plenty of food warme and dry lodging and other necessary reliefe and sustentation and so in like manner her abundance of milke at what time her poore Colt should depend upon the enfeebled Mare who is not able to supply its own need by meanes whereof it must necessarily fall out that she must bring both her selfe and her Colt to extreame poverty not being able to sustaine her own life much lesse her Colts and her own and so become feeble before winter be halfe spent and over
for him to fill his belly nor the season warme enough and let the day wherein you turne him forth be a warme Sunshine day and about the houre of ten for Horses pampered in warme stables and kept close will be subject to take cold if a discreet order and course be not taken with them Secondly let him be taken up from grasse about the feast of Saint Bartholomew which is upon the 24. day of August or soon after for then the season doth begin to let fall cold dewes which betideth no good but much harme to your horse and then beginneth the heart of grasse to faile so as the grasse which then he seedeth upon breedeth no good nutriment but grosse flegmaticke and cold humours which putrifieth and corrupteth the bloud Let your horse I say be taken up about the day before mentioned but with all the quietnes may be for feare of heating him by reason his grease he gat at grasse is tender so as every little motion will dissolve the same whereby the bloud may be inflamed and so the Horse be brought into eminent perill at least of sicknesse if not of death A day or two after you have him in the Stable or sooner let him be shod and let bloud and drencht as before is shewed you for this preventeth Yellowes Stavers and such like diseases which the Gaule and Spleen occasioneth which the heart and strength of grasse through the ranknes of the bloud doth ingender in his body Then purg and cleanse him both outwardly and inwardly like as you are taught in lib. 2. chapter 2. Thirdly search your Horses mouth both then and at other times often for feare of Barbes Bigs Blisters and Cankers and such like maladies which are very incident to breed in the mouths of Horses which by the colour of the spots of his Gums Tongue and Mouth you may perceive and so the better and more easily both prevent and cure all such diseases as are inherent to those parts Fourthly rub and wash sometimes your Horses mouth and tongue with vineger or Verjuce mingled with bay salt but Verjuce is the better and let some passe downe his throat for it is both wholesome and good Fiftly observe your Horses Eyes and Countenance which if you doe find them to be heavy drowsie and dull then be you confident all is not well within him Then take bloud from him and give him the drinke of Diapente or Diatesseron and hee shall doe well againe Sixtly observe well his standing and his going if you doe perceive him to felter with any of his feet be it never so little or else which foote soever he doth favour let the Groome presently take up that foot and examine it if he can feele any place warmer than other let him now assure himself something is amisse there take off the Shoo and search the foot carefully to see whether gravell or naile be any cause thereof but if you doe find all well there search the heele and frush if you find not any thing there search higher for some swelling that may be in the pastern-joynt in the legge or backe sinew and when he hath found the fault and cause of his complaint let him presently informe the Ferrier who is to apply his remedies and by this meanes he shall discharge his duty as well becometh him Seaventhly observe also if he put forth his foote more than usually hee was wont to doe then assure your selfe the griefe lyeth either in the knee or shoulder if it be so presently advertise the Ferrier who knoweth what is best to be done with him Eightly when you are to take your journey with him water him in the House and give him his break-fast of good cleane Oates sweet and wel-sifted then bridle him and tie him up to the Rack then curry dresse and saddle him but draw not the girts too streight till you come to take his back then presently cast his cloath over him least he take cold and when you come to take his back draw his girts streight and so on God's name begin your journey but for a mile two or more goe faire and softly for if you heat him too soone he will not digest his meate but crudityes will arise in his stomacke which you shall perceive by his scouring purging as he travaileth whereby you may either founder him in his body or else cause a Calientura burning Fever or some other worse infirmity to seize him and as you doe travell him when you are come some foure or five miles from home a light from him and walke him sometimes standing still to see if you may provoke him to stale for it is very wholesome and good which you may also doe well to attempt when you dismount and walke him down any hill and some three miles before you come to your journies end Ride him into some River or other watering place unto his belly but no deeper in any wise and then let him drinke yet not so much at the first as he desireth but by degrees first taking up his head to cause him to wash his mouth whereby to free it frō filth fome Then let him drinke halfe his draught and lastly so much as in reason he will Then observe upon what pace you brought him to the water with the same pace and neither softlier nor faster Ride him a mile or better by which time he will have warmed the water in his belly without taking cold or harme This watering him thus will very much refresh him cause him to forget his wearisomenesse and when he shall come to eate it will be with very good appetite which otherwise he would not have done A mile at least before you come to your journies end slack your pace and begin to go more softly to the end he may not be too hot when he shal be set up have him without delay into the Stable warme well littered up to the belly but take heed you suffer him not to be either walked or washed for these two things are very pernitious and most dangerous for him and the cause of more sicknesse sorances and death to Horses then of all other things besides So soone as you have brought him into the Stable the first thing you doe off with your Coate and tie him up to the empty Rack then litter him up to the belly ungird him take off his Saddle rub his back with speed and put his cloath upon him and upon that his Saddle againe and gird him with his Sursingle then make cleane his stirrops stirrop-leathers and Girts and rubbe him downe both Legges Belly Body Breast Head Face and Neck and so stuffe him up with cleane dry straw and let him stand so upon the Bit an houre evermore looking upon him least he sweat a new which if you shall perceive then to alay it take away some of the straw wherewith he is stuffed and hee will coole againe if you finde him in good temper unbridle
passe the first three tell mee what is Handy-worke Hyppos Handy-worke is to heat the Iron well to Sodder well to Forge well to turne a Shoo well to make and point a Nayle well to pare the hoof well to Cauterize well to let bloud well to be light and well-handed bold and hardy in dressing of a Horse well of such Accidents as may happen unto him Hyppiat What are the principall members of the Creature Hyppos They be three viz. the Liver the Heart and the Braine and if the Creature be offended in any of these three especially the Braine which is in the top of the head then I say he will dy Hyppophyl I alwayes tooke the principall members of any living creature to be foure Hyppiat Therein Sir you were mistaken for any of these former three being hurt there is evermore present death especially the Heart and the Braine but if any other member besides these three be hurt yet may your Horse live and doe well againe But which Member I pray you Sir do you hold to be one of the foure principall Members Hyppophyl The Stones or Gignitors Hyppiat How doe you assoyle this Objection Hypposerus Hyppos Most easily Sir that the Gignitors cannot bee any one of the principall Members reason teacheth us for you cannot so much as touch any of these three but you doe either kill the Creature outright or else desperately endanger him Now supposing the Stones may fortune to receive hurt or domage yet if I bee in despaire of healing or curing them I can neverthelesse cut or take them cleane away from the body or cause theÌ„ to fall away by other good means or by medicine without perill of his life he will only thereby loose his naturall heat whereby hee will bee disenabled from having any disposition to Coity or power of Procreation Hyppiat What is that which goeth from the Head of the Horse and diffuseth it selfe through-out all the other Members Hyppos They are two Sinnewes or Tendents which are white and have a Ligature beginning at the very end of the Nose and extend themselves along the Neck and along the Back and maketh their extent to the foure Legges and taketh their Ligaments in the fore Feet Hyppophyl I was in good hope Hypposerus you would likewise have spoken of the number of the Sinnewes and where every one is seated for it is a thing very materiall and I doe the rather desire it for that I am not as yet perfect in that point Hyppiat That was but forgotten both by my selfe and him Sir wherefore Hypposerus make answere to the Gentlemans demand Hyppos I shall doe it most gladly wherefore as touching the Sinnewes we say The number of the sinews that there are in every Horse twenty nine or thirty great and small First the two great Sinnewes which I named before which have their first origin from the end of the Nose Item two branches which are maine Sinnewes that proceed from the Brain and runneth downe the Cheekes to the Teeth Item there are from the Shoulders to the first joynt of the Armes or fore-Legges downewards two great Sinnewes Item from the Knees to the Pasterns are foure great Sinnewes with the same number in the hinder part Item in the fore-part of the Breast and about it as well within as without are ten Sinnewes some greater and some smaller Item from the Raines of the Back to the Stones are foure great Sinnewes Lastly one great maine Sinnew whith runneth along to the end of the Tayle So as the full number of the Sinnewes are twenty nine or thirty which are to be discerned Hyppiat What is that which we doe commonly call principall or vitall Bloud Hyppos Those be Veines which are vessells of quick or running Bloud which men doe call Vitall Bloud Hyppiat What is that which men doe call Vitall Bloud Hyppos It is that which when the Creature sleepeth his bloud is in continuall agitation and never ceaseth Hyppiat How many Veines hath a Horse in his whole body Hyppos To speake properly a Horse hath but only one Veine which is that which we call the Median or Lives Veine which is in the Liver being the true Fountaine Source and great Tunne from whence the Canes Conduite-pipes and little Veines as the smaller Rivers doe separate themselves which doe run thorough all the parts and members of the whole body Hyppiat What call you Separation Hyppos Separation is of two kinds viz. ascendant and descendant those which do ascend to the Head and body are called Veines Ascendant and those which doe run low or to the Legges and lower members are called Hollow or Descendant Veines Hyppophyl I did ever thinke and beleeve till now that a Horse had more Veines than one how then cometh it to passe that we open Veines in so many severall parts of the body being so different Veines the one from the other Hyppiat I answere you Sir if you bee pleased to examine your paper there you shall find how that Hypposerus told you that a Horse hath but only one Veine and it is a most infallible verity for that all those other Canes which you call Veines are but the very same with that One which evermore standeth full of Bloud up to the top conveyed into him which said great Veine is annexed unto the Liver which Veine doth resemble a great Tunne or Cestern which conveyeth the Bloud into all the lesser Veines by which meanes they continually remaine full having no vacancy or want Like as a Cestern V. G. râ—ceiveth its water from a Pump and so conveyeth and bestoweth it into and among the smaller Pipes ofttimes storeth with plenty of water a whole Village or Towne or at least a whole Family Hyppophyl I understand you well but now friend Hypposerus tell me I pray you in how many Veines may a man take Bloud from a Horse in case of necessity Hyppos In many parts to wit In the Neck in the weeping-Veines The numbâ— of ths veinâ— under the Eares and in six other places of and about the Head as in the Palate-Veines in the Tongue in the Flank-Veines in the Breast and Spur-Veines in the foure members to wit the Legges Thighes Pasterns and Feet also in sundry other places according as necessity shall require it and in places which may the better kill the Malady or Disease of the said Horse Hyppophyl But yet I was in good hope you would have delivered the reasons for which you doe open any Veine as also which they be in particular Hyppos The Veines which we doe usually open are First The particâ—lar veines the two Temple-Veines which easeth the paines in thâ— Head coming of Colds Rheumes Feavers Yellows and Stavers drowsinâ—sse Frenzy the Sleeâ—â—-â—vill Falling evill or any griefe in or about the Eyes or Braine Secondly we opâ—n the two Eye or weeping veins being most soveraigâ—e for suâ—h diseases whereunto the Eyes are subjâ—ct as watery or weeping Eyes Bloud shotten Pâ—n and wâ—hhe h w
the Halter catcheth into the Pasterne Ioynt which he feeling falleth to striving whereby he casteth himselfe downe and by meanes of the hardnesse of the Cord he is gauled even to the very bone and many times if he be not opportunely rescued the Halter doth strangle him and he found starck dead But if the Horse do escape with life he will be neverthelesse terrible gauled which will soone rankle and swell unlesse cure be presently administred The signe whereby to know it is apparant enough I will give you only two Receipts for this sorance whereof the first shal be this viz. Take the leafe of the hearb called Saubsucus Cast in a Halter stamp it and strayn it and take only the juyce thereof and apply the said juyce to the sorance by washing it therewith after take a linnen cloth white and cleane and make it into three or foure folds steeping the cloath in the said juyce and bind it on to the place grieved but in Winter when the said Leafe is not to be had you must take the second rinde thereof and do therewith as before but then note that before you wash and apply the saide juyce to the wound you must first wash the sorance with warme Water and then apply your said juyce and he shal be perfectly cured in short time This I never yet experienced by reason I could never yet meete with the Hearb This second I have often tryed and I have found it to bee infallible viz. Make a Rowle of fat Wooll and steepe the same in Vineger and Sheepes Suet so much as will suffice boyled together till it commeth to bee very thick and let the Rowle bee full as long or rather somewhat longer then the place gauled apply this to the sorance Plaister-wise and bind upon it a cleane Linnen cloth changing it twise a day and in short time it wil be whole This is right good ✚ § 2. C. Hippoph VVHat Cure have you for a Canker Hippos This is a very loathsome Sorance which if it be suffred to run long will so fester and corrupt the place where it hapneth that it will violently eate even to the bone if it fall upon the Tongue it will eate the very roote in sunder if in the Nose it will eate the very Gristle through You may easily know this Sorance for that the places wil be very raw and bleed often and many times you shall perceive a white Scurfe to grow upon the place grieved For it is a most Cankerous Vlcer which ofttimes is engendred of a fretting humour It commeth two waies that is eyther of naughty and corrupt bloud procured by meanes of unwholesome meate or by some Bilious Humour which came to the Horse by an extreame cold not long before taken which will cause his bteath to stinke loathsomely Canker I will deliver unto you sundry cures for this sorance which my selfe have experimented and have found them to be very good Take white Wine halfe a pint Roch Alome the quantity of a Wall-nut Bay-salt halfe a Spoonefull English Honey one Spoonefull Red-Sage Rue Ribwort Honey-Suckle Leaves Yarrow Plantine Bramble-leaves of each like much but of every one a little boyle all these in the white Wine so much as will suffice till a quarter be consumed and then first inject of this Water into the sorance or else if the Canker be in the Mouth wash the place with a clout fastned to a sticks end and so dresse him therewith twice a day or oftner if you shall see cause till it be whole ✚ Another Take greene Coperas and Alome of each one pound white Coperas foure drammes boyle these in a pottle of running Water untill almost the one moiety bee consumed then take it from the fire and put into it of Honey half a pound then holding up his Head with a Drenching Staffe but yet not too high with a Pewter or Elder Sering or Squirt inject it into his Nose if the Canker be there bloud warme which done give presently his head liberty whereby hee may snuffle and blow forth the corruption and faile not to inject him thus three or foure times one after the other at every dressing and do thus Morning and Evening till it bee whole which will not be long ✚ But if it be only a sore Mouth and that it come to be a Canker then Take of the strongest white Wine Vineger and make it thick with powdred Alome and so wash the sorance therewith two or three dayes together for this will kill and destroy the Vlcer then heale up the Sorance thus viz. Take of faire Water a quart Alome and Honey of each foure ounces Maudeline leaves red Sage and Columbine leaves of each a handfull boyle all these in the Water till halfe bee consumed and every day twice that is Morning and Evening wash his Mouth therwith bloud-warme and it will heale him ✚ Another First make this strong Alome Water viz. Take Alome halfe a pound Hony halfe a pint red Sage and Wood-bind-leaves of each a handfull boyle all these in faire water till halfe bee consumed with this Water and Hearbs wash and rub the Sores till they become red and raw then take white Wine Vineger halfe a pint Alome powdred two ounces Ginger powdred halfe an ounce and of life Honey halfe a pint mix all these well together and therewith annoynt the sore Morning and Evening and it will cure him ✚ All these Receipts I have made tryall of and have found them to be right good Another Take the juyce of the Root Asphodill seven ounces Quick-lime Arsnick of each two ounces beat and incorporate all these together and put them into a new pot close stopped and let it boyle till it come to ashes these ashes you shall apply to the Sorance twice a day but the sore must be first washed with strong Vineger as before is taught §. 3. C. Hippoph HOw cure you that Horse who hath cast his Hoofe Hippos This is a troublesome Sorance yet with care it may be cured it commeth either by meanes of some Foundring or by an Accloy Prick Stub Graveling Quitterbone or other hurt within the Foote which breaking out above round about the Cronet and in time the Hoofe breaking it falleth from the Foote I neede relate no Signes whereby to know the same The Cure is thus Take Aquafortis the strongest you can get Casting the hoofe and first with a Rape or Drawing Iron file or draw away the old hoofe somewhat neere then touch the hoofe so prepared with your Aquafortis three or foure severall dressings and no more This done annoynt the Foote with the Vnguent we doe commonly make for Horses Feete viz. Take Hogs-grease three pound Pach-grease two pound Venice-Turpentine one pound new Wax halfe a pound Sallet-Oyle one pound Melt and mix all these upon the fire and herewith chafe rub and annoint the Coffin of the Hoofe up to the very top and this will bring a new hoofe ✚
when at any time they are to administer Physicke to a Horse whether Purgative or otherwise if the Horse be not at the time soluble in body that after bloud-letting the next day he give a Clyster and then may he be the bolder to administer what he shall thinke most requisite lest otherwise by giving medicine without further preparation he stirre and provoke the peccant humours which by reason they cannot finde present way forth being hindred by oppilations in the guts through costivenesse and ventosity and other impediments do attempt to make their passage by a contrary way which cannot be done but with great hazard to the life of the poore beast Hippoph But of what ingredients doe you make your Clysters Hipposerus Hippos We doe usually make our Clysters of Decoctions of Drugs of Oyles and sometimes we adde salt Hippoph What is a Decoction Hippos A decoction is a broth made of certain herbs as Mallows A decoction what it is Marsh-Mallowes Palletory Camomile and sometimes of white Lilly roots and other such like things which we do boyle in water to a third part and sometimes we use in stead of hearbs and water to take the fat of beefe broath or the broath of a Sheeps head Milke Whay and some such kinde of liquor Hippoph What quantity of Broth or Decoction doe you usually put in whereof to make your Clyster Hippos That we doe administer according to the age strength greatnesse and corpulency of the Horse for if he be a Horse of a strong and able body of large growth and stature fat and lusty we use to put into his Clyster of the decoction three pintes but if he be of a small growth weake sicke feeble or leane then we doe put in but a quart of the same at most of oyle we use to put in halfe a pinte of salt two or three drams at most and sometimes we put in Verjuyce sometimes Honey as we shall finde cause drugs we use as Sene Cassia Agarick Anniseeds oyle of Dill oyle of Camomile oyle of Violets Sugar-candy c. Hippoph What quantity of drugs is needfull for one Clyster Hippos You ought not to exceed the quantity of three ounces in one Clyster at most neither must you exceed of butter foure ounces and you must be very carefull your Clyster be not administred more than bloud-warme Hippoph What time is fit for a Horse to keepe or retaine his Clyster Hippos When you give it him let him be somewhat empty but before he doe receive it let him be raked and then having administred it let him keep it at least halfe an houre to the end it may work in his belly and so do him the more good and to cause him the better to keep the same let his Keeper so soone as the Horse hath received it hold his tayle close to his tuell for halfe an houres space or more for the longer he keepeth it the more effectuall it will be unto him the best instrument wherinto give it to a Horse is a Clister-pipe made of purpose which ought to be 12 inches in the shanke which must also be put home and when the Clyster is assumed let the giver draw away the pipe by degrees and not all at once Hippoph I pray set me downe some good Receits of Clysters Hippos That shall I Sir most willingly the first Clyster that I ever gave was to a small Nag of a Gentlemans which being very costive in his body and refusing his meat did droop languish and pine away insomuch as the owner fearing his Horses life repaired unto me for counsell when I had well considered the nature of his infirmity together with its symptomes I held it most requisite to administer a Clyster 1 Clister which I did and it was this viz. Take the fat of beefe broth one pinte and an halfe of good English honey halfe a pinte adding thereto of white salt two drams mixe all these well and so administer it bloud warme Clyster-wise and so soone as he hath taken it clap his tayle close to his tuell by the space of halfe an houre together at least and if then it doe not worke as I am confident it will then let one take his backe and ride him up and down a reasonable round trot some times but not so as to cause him to sweat for halfe an houre more and set him up warme cloathed and littered and so let him stand upon his trench foure or five houres during which time he will purge kindely then unbit him and give him sweet hay and an houre after he hath eaten give him white water nor let him drink any cold water in a day or two after And this you shall finde to be the best remedy for this malady ✚ This I have administred saepe et saepius and have done great good therewith for the nature of this Clyster is to open and loosen the Body to bring away with it all offensive Humours to remoove Obstructions engendred in the Body by meanes of excessive heat it cleanseth the Guts and slicketh away all slimy substance which is residing in the Guts Hippophyl Why but Hiposerus I observe a contradiction in you as touching the quantity of your Decoction for where as you did before affirme that you use to put into your Clysters at the most but three pints and at the least but a quart you say that you did administer to this Horse but a pint and halfe only which is under quantity of what you did before prescribe Hippos Sir in answere hereunto you must understand that in cases of this nature Physick ought with judgement to be administred and the reason why I put into the Clyster of this broath so little was for that the horse was growne very weake poore and low of his flesh and in good yeeres was besides a very small Nag fetched out of Scotland from the mountaines of Galeway or Galwin and therefore if I should have made his Clyster so strong and have added so great a quantity of Decoction to him as I might peradventure have put to a Clyster for a great large fat healthy or corpulent Horse I might have repented it and therefore I made it as I told you whereby it wrought most kindly did him that good which I hoped desired But passing from this now let us proceed to intreate yet farther of Clysters and of their severall kinds Another Take Pellitory two handfulls 2 Clister Laxative or for want thereof Melelote two handfulls or if that may not be had then Camomile two handfulls but Pellitory is the best if it may be had boyle it to a Decoction and then adde to it of Sallet-oyle and of Veriuice of the Crab of each halfe a pint of Honey foure ounces of Cassia two ounces mixe all these well together and so apply it bloud-warme Clyster-wise ✚ This we do call a Clycter Laxative for this will open the Body and Guts of the Horse very well it will
take from him all noxious and offensive humours it will carry away all spungy matter it will allay the biliousnesse and sharpnesse of humours it will cleanse old Vlcers it will refresh and comfort the Vitall parts c. But if you doe finde that by giving too great a quantity your Horse purgeth and scowreth longer and more violently than you would have had him to have done or for feare it should stir up in him upon the suddaine more bad humours than you may easily know how to allay then give him this Clyster viz. Take the aforesaid Decoction one pint 3 Clister Restringenâ— adding thereto as much of Cowes milke as it commeth warme from her and put also thereto the yolkes of three new-layed Egges well beaten and well mixed with the said liquour and so give it your Horse bloud warme This is called a Clyster Restringent for this is only to be applyed to a Horse that is very Laxative or that doth empty himselfe too much which is occasioned oft times through overmuch debility and want of strength or when nature is very much offended you may apply this so oft as need shall require ✚ Another 4 Clister for fat Horse Take Mallowes three handfuls marsh mallow roots cleansed and bruised and Violet leaves of each two handfuls Flaxe seed three spoonfuls so many of the cloves of white Lilly roots as you may easily hold in your hand boyle all these in faire water from a gallon to a wine quart then straine it and put thereto of Sene one ounce which must be infused or steeped in the liquor three houres standing upon the hot embers then put thereto of Sallet oyle halfe a pinte and being bloud warme administer it Clyster-wise causing him to keep it at least halfe an houre or longer if you may and the best time to give this is three or foure dayes before the Full and change of the Moon howsoever it may be given to very good profit as occasion may profer it selfe at any other time ✚ This Clister is to be given to a Ketty or fat Horse which otherwise cannot be kept cleane for it purgeth glut abundantly and it is also principally to be given to a Horse that is newly taken from grasse Another 5 A Clister for melancholy Take of Whey a quâ—â—t of Anniseeds in fine powder two penniworth of the leaves of Mallowes one handfull boyle these till the Mallowes be soft then straine it then put to it of sweet Butter foure ounces which when the butter is molten administer it bloud-warm ✚ This purgeth melancholy it causeth a good appetite which before was wanting it refresheth the spirits dulled and occasioneth good digestion if the Horse be kept warm and well tended Another 6 Clister in case of desperate sickâ—esse Take of the oyle of Dill of the oyle of Camomile of the oyle of Violets of Cassia of each halfe an ounce and of browne sugar candy in powder three ounces then take of Mallow-leaves halfe a handfull boyle the Mallowes first to a Decoction in faire water then straine it and put to the broth all the forenamed ingredients administer this bloud-warme Clyster wise This is a most soveraigne Clister to be given in case of desperate sicknesse it helpeth all Feavers it is good against the Pestilence and all languishing diseases most excellent against Surfets either by Provender or otherwise and it will occasion great strength in short time if it be rightly made and carefully given ✚ Another 7 Clister for the Pestilence Take the pulpe of Colliquintida halfe an ounce I meane the seeds and skin taken away of Dragantium three quarters of an ounce of Centuary and of Wormwood of each halfe a handfull of Castoreum a quarter of an ounce boyle all these in three quarts of water to a quart then straine it and dissolve into the broth of Gerologundinum three ounces and of white salt three drams of Sallet oyle halfe a pinte and bloud warme administer it Clister-wise ✚ This I have often proved and doe finde it to be most excellent for the Pestilence and to helpe all Feavers Another 8 Clisters Lenitive Take the decoction of Mallowes and put to it either of fresh Butter foure ounces or of Sallet oyle halfe a pinte and give it him Clister-wise ✚ This is the gentlest Clister of any before prescribed for it is both a Lenitive and a great cooler of the body and doth infinitely ease paine It is the best thing can be given to a Horse that is taken or against Convulsions or Cramps and most singular against Costivenesse proceeding from any sicknesse or surfet by Provender foundring in the body c. Another 9 Clister for the Collick Take salt water or new made brine 2 pints dissolve therein a pretty quantity of Sope and so bloud-warm administer it Clister-wise This I never did experience howsoever I have been oft perswaded by many able Ferriers who have averred it to be the most excellent that may be had for the Collick or any sicknesse or gripings in the guts or belly And let this suffice for Clisters onely by way of advise I counsell you that before you administer any Clister you first rake him that you put in the Pipe being first annoynted with sweet Butter or oyle Olive gently and by degrees and that you also draw it forth very treatably that you make him keep it at least halfe an houre that you doe administer it but bloud warme at most that you squeeze and presse between your hands the bladder strongly and lastly that you let him not drink any cold water in a day or two after but let it be either a sweet Mash or else white water §. 9. C. Hyppoph VVHat is good to be applyed to a Horse that is cloyed prickt or hath other hurt in the hoofe Hippos You must first with your Butter Drawing iron or Paring knife lay the wound bare as may be then Take waxe Hogs grease and Turpentine of each one ounce Cloyed Verdigrease two ounces boyle these upon a gentle fire your waxe and Hogs grease being first put in and molten then put in your Turpentine and lastly your Verdigrease in fine powder and being indifferently warme dip Tow or Hurds into the oyntment and so lay it to the Sore then stop and splent it up and dresse him twice a day and this will make him whole and sound in short time ✚ But of this more in its due place § 10. C. Hippophylus VVHat say you to a Horse whose Cods and Stones are swelled Hippos This infirmity proceedeth from sundry causes as sometimes by being bitten with a Dog or with another Horse or by being stung with some venemous or evill creature The French do call it Enflure de Coullon's Cods swelled It commeth also by meanes of some evill humours and corrupt bloud which doe fall down to the cods sometimes after sicknesse and sometimes of ranknesse of bloud and seed for want of a Mare If
too great abundance of seed which causeth a stopping in the pipe or conduct of the yard Colt-Evill and to a gelding for want of heat and strength to send it forth whereby the yard and sheath swelleth very much The best way to cure a Horse is to give him a Mare whereby he sendeth forth his seed freely and then two or three houres after swimme him or else ride him up to the flankes to and fro a pretty while against the streame This disease is knowne by the swelling of the yard and sheath I have cured many Horses and Geldings with this ensuing Receit First swimme him but specially against the streame foure or five dayes together then apply this Plaister Take Beane-meale and Mallowes of each one handfull Hogs grease halfe a pound chop the Mallowes small then put to the Hogs grease and so boyle it with a pinte of white Wine and when it is boyled put it into a cloath and wrap his cods therein and so order it as that it may gather like a purse and make it fast so as it may neither fall off nor hurt him dresse him herewith every day till he be well ✚ I have had great experience of this Receit but if you be desirous to have variety then looke over Master Blundevile and Master Markham who are well stored § 13. C. Hippoph WHat is best to be given for a cold Hippos There are so many and so good as that I am to seeke almost to know how to begin they be of so many and sundry sorts of them Cold. for some are for colds newly taken some for old colds some for colds that bringeth the Glanders c. Wherefore for colds newly taken at first you must understand Sir that a cold newly taken a thing not to be prevented by reason it oft times commeth by meanes and wayes unknowne you must observe first that if your Horse be propense to many bad humours whereof some Horses are more than others you must first then labour to expell them by purging his head then search betwixt his jawes and if there you do finde any small kernels then be you assured he hath a new-taken cold but if he have great kernels then was not the cold so lately taken as you might have imagined also if he doe rattle in the head it is a signe his cold is newly taken or if he doe voyd any thinne matter forth of his nose or eyes or if he hold his head into the manger or if when he drinketh the water commeth out of his nostrils or that he cougheth oft and sometimes perhaps cheweth mattrative stuffe betwixt his teeth c. These and many others be certaine signes of a Pose Catarre and newly taken cold wherein is no danger if it be taken in time otherwise it will come to a worse matter I will now give you sundry good Receits most of which I have often tryed and found to be right good First I hold moderate exercise and seasonable ayering to be marvellous good without further applying of medicines but if you finde that he is much stopped in the head then Take a small quantity of fresh or sweet Butter and of brimstone made into fine powder work them together til they be one entire body of a deep yellow gold colour then take two long wing Goose-feathers and annoynt them herewith to the very quils on either siâ—â— which done rowle them in more of the powder of Brimstone and so put them up into either nostrill one and at the but end of the quils put a strong packthred which must be fastned over his pole like to the headstall of a Bridle and then leap his back and ride him moderately up and down an houre or longer and this will provoke him to snort and snuffle forth of his nose and head much of the congealed filth which is in his head then tye him to the Racke for an houre after and this will purge his head very cleane then draw forth the feathers and he will doe well keeping him warme and giving him Mashes or white water every day for foure or five dayes after This Receit was taught me for more than 30 yeares since by a famous Marishall of France which since I found in Master Markhams Master-piece but I hold it one of the best things can be prescribed for this Malady ✚ Another very short but as good Take of Time one handfull boyle it in a quart of strong Ale till it come to a pinte then straine it and adde thereunto of ordinary Treacle two spoonfuls and give it him bloud-warme ✚ Another An excellent drinke to be given to a Horse for a new-taken cold provided he be young that is not above five yeares old Take of French Barly halfe a pound put it into a posnet and put thereto of faire water one quart and set it upon the fire and let it boyle a little then take it off and draine the water from the Barly and cast away the water then adde the second time the like quantity of water and boyle it as much as you did the first t me and then draine it from the water cast away the water again then adde once againe the like quantity of a quart of water as you did twice before and boyle that also so long a time as you did the two former waters draine this also from the Barly but cast it not away but keep it and then adde to the water of Anniseeds and Licoris of each halfe an ounce make them into very fine powder and searce them and put the said powder into the boyled water and adde to it of white sugar-candy foure ounces then set it upon the fire in a cleane skillet and so boyle it up untill a third part be consumed then take it off and straine it and give it your Horse bloud-warme drench him thus three mornings together and it will ripen his cold and cause it to come away This is very good ✚ Another Take of white wine vineger the best and strongest five spoonfuls and put to it of oyle de Bay one spoonfull warme it upon the fire stirring it well this must be made and given in the morning but when you doe administer it you must first put your drenching horn into faire water that is good and hot to keep the medicine from sticking to the horne then taking it forth out of the hot water before the horne can be cold and whilst it is yet moyst with the water put the one halfe of your medicine into the same and so as speedily as may be convey it into one of his nostrils and after the other moity into his other nostrill this done ride him for halfe an houre moderately then set him up and cloath and litter him warme and let him stand upon the trench three or foure houres before you give him any meat and after doe as is accustomed to be done to sicke Horses in Physicke ✚ This I doe approve
to be equivalent to either of the two former Another Tâ—ke water and salt so much as will suffice brew them well together it then being made bloud-warme give it him and doe after as is usuall ✚ This for a new taken cold I have often used and I doe finde it to be singular good to be given to a young Horse Another Take of oyle de Bay of Anniseeds and of Licoris of each one halfe penny worth and of browne sugar-candy a penny worth make all these into fine powder and being well mixed sew it up into a fine linnen rag and so fasten it unto the Bit or Snaffle of the Horse and so ride a journey and travell him and in short space he will be cured if it be a new-taken cold onely ✚ This I have also proved and I doe finde it good for it will cure both cold and cough if it be rightly applyed to wit with riding and exercise Another Take of white Wine one pinte Sallet oyle a quarter of a pinte Rubarb and Aloes and Saffron of each two drams Nutmeg Sene Agarick Bay-berries Duke or Dutch powder and of Cordiall powder of each halfe an ounce mixe all these together and then adde to it of Honey foure ounces warme them well in a Pipkin and give it him to drinke bloud-warme but let him stand upon the trench at least three houres before and three houres after neither let him for all that day eate any Oates but in its stead let him have Wheate-bran and let his drinke be that day either a warme Mash or white water and no cold water but this white water for foure or five daies after and put into his Provender for some time Fennugrick made into grosse powder ✚ This is a most soveraigne drinke to be given for a cold But if you do finde that his head is very much oppressed with a Pose or Catar then give him this drinke twice a day viz. Take Fenugrick one ounce and boyle it in a good quantity of water till it burst then mixe with the decoction thereof wheate meale as much as will suffice and give it him to drink Another Take a quart of the best Ale and warme it upon the fire and put into it so much Tobacco made into fine powder as you can take up upon a shilling at twice and as much dryed Rosemary in fine powder as you may take up upon a shilling at once give him this to drink bloud-warme in a morning fasting This drinke is called Potio-Necotiana but I did never make tryall thereof for that I once saw it given by a Ferrier to a sicke Horse which so wrought with him as that with all his Lenitives and Cordials the Ferrier had much labour to save the life of the poore Horse this potion was so violent which notwithstanding drove the Horse into a most dangerous Calentura But the next is better Take a Hens egge and make a hole in the top thereof no bigger than that you may get forth the white and yolke Then take Tarre and sweet Butter of each like much as much as will suffice incorporate these well together into one body and so convey it into the egge shell and give it your Horse three or foure mornings together and either journey him gently or else ride him three or foure houres after it which done bring him into the Stable and cloath him up warme and litter him well and let him be well rubbed and so keep him upon the trench two houres after and then give him Hay and an houre after give him either a warme Mash or white water and this will help a cold newly taken ✚ This will not make him sicke for I have often made tryall of it Another as good as this Take the long white mosse that groweth upon an old dry Parke pale one handfull chop it small and put it into a pottle of good Ale or Beere till one halfe be consumed then take it off and straine and presse it hard and put into the liquor of Anniseeds and Licoris of each halfe a spoonfull and a piece of sweet Butter and so give it him three mornings together fasting and it will cure him X Another if he hath taken a cold or poze in the head Take a quart of Muskadine or sweet Sacke of Nutmegs Pepper Cominseed Graines Bay-berries of each three drams all made into fine powder boyle these a waume or two then take it off and put into it a piece of sweet Butter and give it your Horse three mornings together bloud-warme let him all those three dayes be kept warme neither let him drinke any cold water but either a sweet Mash or white water yea and that three or four dayes after and during these three dayes let him fast three houres after the receit of his said medicine Also three dayes after when you perceive the cold to begin to breake from him and to rot cause him to sneeze by blowing into either nostrils either the powder of Tobacco or of Pepper or of Elebore X Another which will cure a longer-taken cold yea though it be accompanyed with a dry cough and shortnesse of breath or pursivenesse which I had of Master Markham and I have often made tryall thereof and it hath done cures which have been held impossible to have been effected Take of the conserve of Elecampane three quarters of an ounce and dissolve it in a pinte and a halfe of sweet Sacke and so give it your Horse with a horne in a morning fasting and ride him gently a little after and thus doe sundry times untill you doe finde the infirmity to decrease Hippoph But Hipposerus this Conserve of Elecampane I doe suppose is hard to come by for surely every Countrey Apothecary hath it not how then may a Man make this Confection you so much commend Hippos Sir this Conserve I make my selfe and I will give you the receipt hereof You must understand that there bee two kinds thereof the one is called particularly a Preserve and the other an absolutâ— Conserve The first is Simple the other Compound both very soveraigne for this Infirmity but the Conserve is evermore to bee esteemed the better and I do counsell you never to be without either of them for they will keep the whole yeere through if they be reserved close stopped Wherefore as touching the first which is the Simple you must preserve it like as you doe all other greene rootes and so keepe them in a Gally pot or Glasse in a good quantity of its owne Sirop till you have occasion to use the same and when you are to use it let it bee beaten well in a Morter together with its Sirop and refined Sugar made first into very fine powder Now your Compound or Conserve is thus made First let your roots of Elecampâ—ne be neatly Candied and made very dry and hard and get the best and youngest Rootes can be had which must be kept also in a Gally pot or Glasse close stopped
each the quantity of three Wallnuts halfe as much Hony browne Sugar-candy in fine powder halfe an ounce mixe these with a quantity of powdred Brimstone so much as will suffice and sew them into a fine linnen cloth and ty it to his Bit or Snaffle and so ride or journey him moderately till all be dissolved into his body then bring him into the stable and cloth and litter him warme and three houres after give Hay and after a warme Mash use him thus three mornings together and longer if you shall see cause ✚ Another Take bloud from him if you have ground for the same otherwise not Bran prepared then insteed of giving him Oates you shall give him bran boyled in water after this manner viz. Set a Kettle over the fire almost full of water when it beginneth to boyle put in your bran and let it boyle a full quarter of an houre at least then take it off and let it stand till it bee almost cold and about foure or five a clocke in the morning give him this Bran so hot as he can eate it then for his drinke give him the same water and at night give him Oates and white water and let him be covered and littered warme if it be in Summer let not the Stable be too hot for that will take away his stomacke and make him faint and sweat too much and at night give him the quantity of what you can put into an Egge-shell among his Oates of this powder following to which you must keep him for eight dayes together or longer if you shall see cause You must understand that the boyled Branne is that which dryeth up all his grosse and corrupt humours which was the cause of his cold Now the powder is this viz. Take of Comen-seed Fenugrick Silleris-Montani alias Sisileos Nutmegs Cloves Ginger Linseed of each two ounces Quick Brimstone sixe ounces make all these into fine powder and let them be well mixed this must be given with his Oates as is before inculcated but he must first be watered and then presently let him be well rubbed body necke pole legges breast and belly and cloathed and littered warme and an houre before you give him his Oates put into his Rack a little sweet wheat straw and so I say let him eate thereof the space of one houre or better and then give him his Oates mixed with this powder which having eaten give him Hay at your pleasure and thus doing in short time you shall perceive his Cold to be quite gone and the sooner if he shall be moderately ayered an houre after Sun-rising and an houre before Sun-set if the Sunne doe shine Now if this Cold bring with it a violent cough as is often seen then give him the aforesaid Wheat Branne boyled together with the said powder with his Oates but then not above three or foure dayes for that the said powder disperseth the corrupt and grosse humours that are in the body which doe occasion the said cough and when you doe perceive that he hath purged sufficiently keep him notwithstanding to his white water but an houre before you doe water him Take a sticke of the bignesse of your thumb or better of well nigh a foot long and wrap a linnen clout about it four or five times first dipped in oyle de Bay and put it into his mouth and with some piece of leather thong or other small cord fasten it to either end of the sticke and so fasten it over his eares like the Headstall of a Bridle like as Smiths use to do when they burn a Horse for the Lampas and let him drinke with this sticke in his mouth which done let him stand with it thus in his mouth an houre after at the least to the end he may licke and sucke up the said oyle and when he is to eate his Oates put among them this other powder following viz. Take Fennell seed four ounces Fenugrick two ounces Cardimums one ounce pound these grosly otherwise he will blow them away in eating his Oates and with his Oates put every night of this powder one spoonefull and keep him warme and so use him as before is prescribed ✚ Another Take Ivy-berries and dry them and make them into powder and so give it to your Horse in Ale or Beere This I never tryed and this is onely for a cough Another for a cough Take of salt one pinte of Sallet oyle halfe a pinte oyle of Anniseeds one ounce browne sugar Candy in powder three ounces give this with your horne to your Horse three mornings together and it will rid him of his cough and heale any putrifaction in his lungs or any other inward parts whatsoever This also I never tryed but it was highly commended to me Another Receit for a cough which I have found to be very good Take two new laid Egges and open the crownes and get forth some of the white and then put into these Egges so much of the powder of Brimstone as you can take up upon a shilling into either Egge give him this every morning for some time or till you see the cough to goe from him Another Take three new laid egs and put them into a pinte pot then put so much of the best and strongest white wine vineger into the pot as will very well cover the Egges and let them lye in the Vineger 24 houres at least then beat the Vineger and Egges together shels and all and so give it your Horse cold and then ride or walke him an houre and against his comming in have this drinke in a readinesse and give it him viz. Take Isope Anniseeds Licoris Graines Long Pepper Gentiana Elecampane dried of each three drams make all the spices into fine powder and stamp the Isope well and so put all into good Sack one pinte and of good Ale also one pinte and of Honey one spoonfull and so boyle it and give it your Horse bloud-warme and set him up and cloth him and litter him warme causing him to fast three houres after it and give him no cold water but sweet Mashes or white water and this will cure him for it is an approved good receit ✚ Another very good Take Wheate meale Anniseeds Licoris Polipodium of the Oake dryed Elecampane dryed make all these into powder and mixe them well Take two spoonfuls of this powder with a head of Garlicke pilled and bruized mixe all these well together and with your Wheate meale and honey as much as will suffice make pils thereof to the bignesse of a great Walnut and give your Horse every morning three or foure of these Pils and so soone as he hath taken them give him two new laid Egges with their shels X Another Take of life hony three spoonfuls of the best and whitest refined loafe sugar one spoonfull and an halfe made into fine powder dryed Elecampane root made also into fine powder one spoonfull and of Amber-greece two graines mixe all these
then other and at length he grew to be so much enfeebled by continuall languishing as that being downe he was not able to rise but with helpe in fine shortly after the Nagge died then for my better experience I would needs have him opened which being done a sounder body in a Horse could not be seene but I discovered the cause of the disease and death of this Nagge in his skinne for it being taken from him you might most evidently see the Fat which did ly next unto his belly brisket ribs and sides to be so caked and hard as that it not being dissolved the Nagge could never after enjoy himselfe which caused him to wast and dwindle of his flesh and languishing dy which so soone as I espied I presently told the Gentleman the owner of the Nag that the Ambler had given him that Infirmity the Nagge being then very fat and after in his heate put him into the water which the owner examining found to bee most true as well from the report of honest neighbours who lived adjacent to the Ambler as after some small pressure from the ingenuous confession of the very Ambler himselfe And this I think fit to bring you for an instance to the end you may be the more carefull in avoyding the like inconvenience and be the better able to judge of a Malady of this nature But now as touching the best cure for a Consumption of the flesh albeit there be many yet I can recommend but only this one which both Master Blundevile and Master Markham have recorded which is this viz. Consumption of the flesh Take a Sheepshead with the wooll on cleave it wash it very cleane and boyle it in a gallon of faire water untill the flesh come from the bones then strayne the liquor from the flesh and put into the broath of refined loafe-Sugar halfe a pound of Cinamon conserve of Roses conserve of Barberies conserve of Cherries of each three ounces and give your Horse of this broath a quart every morning fasting bloud warme use this till foure or more Sheepsheads be spent and after every of these drinks let him be walked abroad if the weather be warme and not windy otherwise walke him in some barne or warme place and let him fast two or three houres after let him not drinke any cold water in fifteene daies after at the least but let his drink be eyther sweet mashes or white water and for his Diet let that be what himselfe best liketh and that given by little at once and often and by this meanes he may recover both Flesh and strength againe in reasonable time ✚ Neverthelesse when he hath gotten Flesh depart with him so soone as may be least upon any hard travell he happen to relaps as is most probable he may With this Receipt I have recovered three Horses whereof one was a Horse of a high price Hippoph But tell me I pray you were it amisse for this disease to take bloud from him before you drench him Hippos Yea that it were Sir very much amisse for so to do were certaine death for in cases of Consumptions you must take no bloud at all but rather labour to cherish the bloud he hath for his debility and feeblenesse wil be such as that he consuming so much in his Flesh you must rather endeavour to procure his strength then any way to hinder the same which the losse of bloud may most easily do Neither must you be too busie in administring unto him Purges but Cordialls as Diapente Diatesseron Duke powder Cordiall powder and such like restoratives also by giving him good meat as good strengthning bread and hartning well made and of purpose for him if he will eate bread sometimes boyled Barley and Oates also boyled Beanes and such like hearty meat as will restore him and to give him sometimes about midday a quart of strong Ale or Beere is very good and will greatly comfort him And thus keeping him warme feeding him and ordering him well you may in time recover him againe ✚ And this is the best Counsell I can give you for this Infirmity §. 16. C. Hippoph Now what say you to a Convulsion How doe you cure that Hippos A Crampe and Convulsion is one and the same Malady which is a violent contracting or drawing together of the Sinewes and Veines and Muskles as well through the whole Body as in any one member of the same yet doth it not alwaies apprehend or seâ—ze the whole body but takes one member or other as sometimes it laieth hold upon the Eye sometimes upon the Tongue the Iawes Lips Legs c. which albeit it commeth by severall meanes yet principally it comes eyther through cold in the body or else for want of bloud or lastly by over much purging The signes to know this disease are most easie for that horse that is therewith troubled will have that member for the time the fit is upon it so stiffe that a man with the utmost of his strength is not able to stirre the same by reason that the Sinewes and Muskles wil be so much contracted as not possibly to bring the limb to its pristine state but only by rubbing and chafing the limbe or member with warme cloths and after the fit is over it were very requisite to sweate him in the Stable in his cloaths for two or three houres together and if the Malady bee in the lower parts as in the Legges Convulsiâ— then let that member which is taken be wisped up with thumb-bands of Hay made wet first and after when the member is thus wisped to cast thereon cold water and after this his sweating let his whole body but especially the member taken be annoynted with the oyntment of Acopum before mentioned in the second booke cap. 14 § 1. A. and to give him some of it inwardly with sweet Sack or Muskadine and thus have I recovered sundry horses perplexed with this disease giving him two or three drinks after of Diapente then to keepe him warme and to continue him for some time with sweet mashes or white water but when you come to give him cold water againe let it be with exercise and ayrings after Sun rising and before Sunne set the Sunne shining and when there is no wind or other cold nipping weather But if you have not of this Acopum in a readinesse then apply this bathe or oyntment to the greived place or member viz. Take Pinpernell a good armefull Primrose leaves Camomile Crow-foot Mallowes Fennell Rosemary of each six handfuls fine up-land Hay cut made about Midsomer when the strength and heart of grasse is at the best a good quantity put all these into a Lead or Chalderon and fill up the Chalderon with faire water and so let it steepe eight and forty houres then boyle it untill the hearbs be soft and bathe the the greived member therewith foure daies together morning and evening warmed which done apply
give him this drinke Take of new milke warmed as much as will suffice the yelkes of three new laid Egges of pepper made into very fine powder a halfe penny worth of Anniseeds Myrra Bay-berries Turmaricke powdred also of each halfe a dram of ordinary Treacle one penny worth and a little saffron powdred pound all the simples that are to be pounded every one by it selfe and mixe them well with the residue and let them infuse in the milke a whole night and the next morning give it to the Horse bloud warme and after order him as you are accustomed to doe to sicke Horses in Physicke but let him have this drink five mornings together and keep him to Mashes or white water and if during that time you doe not finde his appetite to come unto him better then before then let him rest foure dayes and at foure dayes end give him this drinke viz. Take Bay-berries Iuniper-berries Aristoloch rot Ivory Myrra of each two ounces make all these into fine powder and searse them and let them be well mixed boyle of this powder two spoonfuls in strong Ale one quart or Muskadine or Sacke one pinte which is much better adding thereto when you take it from the fire so much Pepper finely beaten as will lye on a sixe pence and so much grated Ginger as will lye upon a shilling and so bloud warme administer it to your Horse then so soone as he hath taken this drinke trot him gently a mile or two upon faire ground and then set him up warme and cause him to sweate in the Stable an houre but not too violently and after coole him discreetly and by degrees and give him this drinke and sweats three times to wit every other day and after the taking of these three drinkes Take of burnt Sack one pinte and put to it of Arement two good lumps made first into fine powder and give it your Horse two mornings that is to say having given it him once let him rest and then give it him for the secoâ—d drinke foure dayes after ✚ And thus have I cured sundry horses of this infirmity § 9. D. Hippoph VVHat cure have you for a Dropsie Hyppos This disease hath an apparant ground more then conjecturall for it never commeth to be knowne by any symptomes but onely when the horse falleth into dislike and loseth the true and perfect colour of his hayre and skinne and when he loseth his spirit mettle strength cheerefulnesse and stomacke and therefore we see it commeth principally for want of good nourishment and digesture which passeth into melancholy it proceeding either from the spleene or from the liver or both the bloud being corrupted and converted into a thin and watry substance and sometimes it commeth of over-much rest for want of moderate exercise which I doe judge to be the more probable Some Ferriers doe affirme that there be three kindes of this disease but I could never observe more then one only which hath its origen either of melancholy bloud water or winde but chiefly of water by reason that the belly legs of a horse will swell and that a watry humour runnes 'twixt the skin and the flesh and if you lay your finger hard upon the swolne places when you shall take it away there will be in the place a pit for a small time after The signes to know it are that he will be swelled both body and legges he will be also short-breathed lose his stomacke have in his body a continuall drought but yet when he commeth to drinke he will not drinke much but pudder long with his nose in the water he will be as if he had a generall consumption over all his body and in time he will pine and fall away to the very bones and his flankes and buttockes will be dry and his hayre will shed and pill off with every rubbing c. The cure is first let him bloud to take away the cold Dropsie thin watrish or wheyish bloud that better may come in its place then cover him warme and give him a sweat in the Stable but if he will not be brought to sweat in the Stable as many times it so falleth out then exercise him abroad till he sweat and bring him into the Stable againe and cloath and litter him warm and let him be well rubbed and give him Sallow leaves or the leaves of the Elme tree greene Rye blades Sedge or Grasse to keep his body open and when you doe give him Hay let it be sprinckled with water then give him this drinke Take of Ale one gallon set it upon the fire and scum off the froth as it riseth then put into it of Worm-wood and of Rue the tender tops and leaves without stalkes carefully picked of each a handfull and so boyle the Ale to a quart then take it off and straine it well and dissolve into it of the best London Treacle three ounces and put also unto it of long-Pepper and Grains both made into fine powder of each one ounce then brew all these well together till it be but bloud warme and so give it him to drinke then bathe and annoynt the legs that be swelled with Trayne-oyle twice a day till the swelling goe away and give him Mashes or white water and feed him with such meate as he will best eate changing his dyet daily and give it him by little at once and after some small time thus spent with him if the weather be seasonable turne him to grasse and he shall doe well and become sound againe ✚ This is all the Dropsie I doe know howsoever many Ferriers doe talke much of another kinde which they doe call the Feltrick which is not truely a Dropsie but a disease distinct from the Dropsie unto which young Horses are inclinable that from Foles and Colts are bred in Fennes Moores Marshes moyst and wet grounds and Commons by meanes whereof they will swell exceedingly under the belly and so soone as they doe come to be handled and backed whereby they may be provoked to sweate they will presently have inflamations under the Chaule runne at nose fall into an incurable Glanders and in a word become inwardly rotten The cure is Feltrick First with your fleame strike him in sundry places under the belly where the swelling is most ranke and so let the corrupt bloud and filth issue forth by the space of an houre or two then wipe the places cleane and dry and then Take of Buck-lye made very strong with chamber-lye and the ashes of Ashen wood and dissolve into the lye of Vnguentum Populeon and Dialthea of each one ounce or as much as will suffice according to the Lye you have and being made good and hot wash bathe and annoynt the swelling therewith morning and evening till the swelling be quite gone and after every dressing trot him up and downe by the space of a quarter of an houre which will be a very good meanes to cause
the humour to dissolve and so to depart the sooner and the better and for two or three dayes give him fasting a quart of good Ale and of Diapente two spoonfuls which must be immediately before his trotting forth after his dressing and so set him up warme and give him white water ✚ And thus have I cured many Horses of the Feltrick § 10. D. Hippoph VVHat is good to take dead flesh out of a sore Hippos We use sundry sorts of corrosives wherwith to cleanse foule wounds and to eate away dead proud and naughty flesh out of sores to the end they may heale and carnifie the better and more kindely but yet omitting all sorts of powders and other corrosives to corrode and eate away dead flesh I will teach you a most precious Vnguent which will take off any dead proud spungy or bad flesh in the foote or any other part of the Body be the wound never so deep or ulcerated and it will not only take away all proud dead and naughty flesh but it will also clense and heale up the same very soundly in short space And this Vnguent is thus made and compounded Take of common Hony two ounces Roach-alume Verde-grease and Vinegar of each one ounce sublimat two drammes Dead flesh let all bee made into fine powder and boyle it a few waumes keeping it still stirring and then take it from the fire and keep it in a gally pot stopped for your use Apply this Vnguent upon lint or fine hurds to the Sorance once a day and it cureth speedily and soundly but then observe that every day before you dresse the sore you cleanse wash inject into the wound the water taught you in the next § which I will shew you for a Puncture or deepe wound ✚ And this is an approved cure and beyond all peradventure §. 11. D. Hippoph VVEll shew mee then what is good for a Puncture or deepe wound Hippos If it be in the foote or any other part of the Body if you can come well unto it or if it be an Impostumation unbroken scald it first with the medicine of red-Tarre Hogs-grease Bay-salt and greene Copporas described in lib. 2. cap. 16. § 10. for the Poll. evill then wash the wound with this water Take red-Sage Plantane Ribwort Yarrow Bramble-leaves Deepe wounds Rosemary Isope and Honey-suckle-leaves of each one half a handfull boyle them in white Wine one pint and as much of Smithes or coletrough-coletrough-water then adde thereunto in the boyling of common Honey one Spoonefull and as much Alume as a wall-nut and a bright black peece of Sea-cole the bignesse of an Egge unbroken then let this boyle till the one moiety bee consumed then strayne it hard and wash the Sorance therewith and if the wound bee deepe inject of this water with a siring or squirt every day when you dresse him and by thus doing you shall cleanse the wound take away all dead and bad flesh and heale up the wound both soundly and speedily ✚ This is a most approved Receipt §. 12. D. Hippoph VVHat is best to be applyed to a desperate Straine Hippos If it bee so desperate an old Straine as that it be holden incurable if it lyeth in the Shoulder or other hidden and fleshy part of the Body or that the Horse have a Fistula Poll-evill or other inflamation or swelling then use but this one Medicine and it will cure the same viz. Desperate straine Take a large earthen vessell or crock of one two or three gallons or more and fill it almost to the top with Asmart and Brookelime of each like much and mix them well then fill it up to the top with old chamber-lye as can be gotten so that all the herbs be quite covered and more then stop it close with a board or some such like thing and so keep it for your use for it never can bee too old now when you have occasion to use this Medicine for any griefe aforesaid then take an earthen Pipkin and put thereinto aswell of the liquor as of the hearbs so much as shall suffice for your present use and boyle it well upon the fire Then if it be for a strayne in the shoulder you shall take an old boote and cut of the foote so as you may draw it over the Horse-foote and bring it up above the knee almost to the Elbow of the Shoulder keeping the neather part of the boote as close and straight to the legge as may be but the upper part which is to cover the shoulder must be wide and spatious then into this boote thrust all this mixture so hot as the Horse can suffer it and lay it fast and close about the shoulder especially before and behind then drawing up the upper part of the boote so fasten it to the Mane and about his Neck as that it may not by any meanes slip downe but keep constant and firme and thus you must apply this Medicine to the place till the griefe depart this is the most violent of all medicines and fit for no creature but a horse to endure yet in short time it will bring forth whatsoever evill matter lyeth in the Ioints and if you have occasion to apply this to a Fistula Poll evill or any Impostumation or swelling then may you spare the boote and only lay on the medicine in manner of a Pultis and it will be sufficient ✚ This is a very approved Receipt § 13. D. Hippoph VVHat meanes have you to dissolve Grease or Glut in a fat or ketty Horse after a strong heate or violent exercise Hippos For a thing of this nature I have seene this scowring administred viz. Dissolve grease Take of sweet Sack one quart and set it upon the fire eyther in a Basin or open Skillet and when it is scalding hot put into it of Rosin one ounce made into very fine powder then by degrees a little after a little convey it into the Sacke continually stirring it as you put it in for feare of clotting and when the Sack and it is very well incorporate take it from the fire and put into it of Sallet oyle halfe a pint and so stirre them well together and as it cooleth put also into it of browne Sugar-candy made into fine powder one ounce and when it is only bloud warme give it to your Horse so soone as hee commeth from his exercise and then being set up let him bee well rubbed and cloathed warme and well littered and let him fast three houres after it and let the Groome remaine continually with him during these three houres till you do give him meate yea and an houre after neyther let your horse all that time stand still long nor sleepe but be kept stirring and mooving for that the medicine will by that meanes worke the more kindly and when you shall give this or any other scowring be you sure that neyther the same day nor the next you give him any
can neither swallow it downe into his Body nor cast it up at his Mouth The cure is Put the cord of your Drenching Staffe into his teeth Eate a feâ—ther and hold his head up on high then take of Verjuyce of the crab one pint and two new laid Egges and beate them together shels and all with the Verjuice and so give it him with a Horne and so soone as hee hath swallowed the same give him a few small branches of Savine and this will carry away the feather into his stomacke ✚ This I have very ofttentimes done and made him well againe § 3. E. Hippoph BVt then what Cure have you for a Horse that hath eaten a Spider which I take to be much more perillous to the life of the Horse Hippos The signes to know this is like to that of the Taint but only that he will swell much more and this may befall him rather in Winter then in Summer for which give him this drinke Take Vrine of a Man newly made one quart of Rue Bittony Eate a Spider Scabious Pimpernell Dragons of each a like much but in such a quantity as in the whole all will amount but only to one handfull chop these hearbs together small and let them boyle together in the Vrine a little adding thereto of Bay-salt and Sallet-oyle of each one Spoonefull and so give it him bloud warme ✚ Now if it be in Winter Take of Vrine one quart Arement one lumpe Aristolochia rotunda Mithridate of each one dramme English Saffaron one scruple Sallet-oyle one Spoonefull Bezar-stone three graines let these bee set on the fire and given him bloud warme if it be in Summer turne him to grasse and if need be rake him and then convey into his Tuell a ball of fresh Butter But if it be in Winter let him be also raked and give him of the blades of Greene Rie to a good quantity and for his Provender let it be for two or three meales of scalded bran and Hempseed and let his drinke for three or foure dayes bee white water ✚ These are all approved medicines §. 4. E. Hippophyl VVHat is good for a blow on the Eye whereby aswell to save the Eye as to asswage the swelling thereof Hippos This needes no study as well to find out the meanes how it commeth as the signes how to know it for both are apparant enough there only remayneth to treate of the Cure Shave off the hayre from off and about the place swelled having first well bathed it in warme water then Eye a stroak Take the tenderst tops of wormwood Pellitory and Branca-Vrsina of each halfe a handfull chop the hearbs very small and then beate them to an oyntment with old Boares-grease so much as will suffice then put to it of life hony and Wheate flower of each one Spoonefull and of Lynseed-oyle three Spoonefull boyle these over the fire very well keeping it with continuall stirring and when it is sufficiently well boyled straine it into a gally pot and keepe it stopped and as occasion is offered anoynt the place swelled herewith ✚ §. 5. E. Hippoph VVHat remedy is to bee had for the Eye that is charged with a Filme Pinne and Webbe or with Dragons c Hippos These diseases in the Eye do come sometimes by meanes of some payne in the head which causeth a Rheume to fall into the Eyes and sometimes by meanes of Rheumes themselves which causing the Eyes to water do ingender these diseases and sometimes againe it is occasioned by meanes of a strip or hay-dust or some hame which may be gotten into the Eye I need not deliver you the signes whereby to know them they are visible to your sight The cure therefore is thus Eye Filme Pin and web Dragons Take Camfire or Sol Armoniacum or for want of eyther of these white-Sugar-Candy any of these three being made into very fine powder and blowne into the Eye three times a day are most soveraigne to cure these diseases in the Eyes of a Horse but Sol Armoniacum is the very best of them all ✚ But if a Filme or Pearle without a Pin and Web do grow in the Eye then take up both the two weeping-veines first which are under the Eyes and then give a Cauterize to eyther place viz. to open the skinne all along to the very Eyes and put in to each of them a quill cut in the middle then oft-times cleanse them and comfort the places Cauterized or roweled with unguentum-Populeum and wash the Eyes every day three times with Eye-bright water mingled with the juyce of Smallage and about fifteene dayes after take away the quils and after wash the Eyes with cold Fountaine-water Another But if it be a Pin and Web then Take Cuttle bone Tartar Salt-Gemme of each like much Pin anâ— make them all into pure fine powder and with a quill blow of this fine powder well mixed into his Eye two or three times a day or oftner ✚ This have I tryed and have found it to be speciall good But if be a Pearle that the horse hath in his Eye then Take the angriest tops of red-Nettles and stamp them well Pearlâ— Filme and put them into a fine cleane linnen Rag then dip the Nettles as they be in the Rag into Beere but yet very slightly and so wring forth the juyce of the said Nettles into some cleane thing which done put to it a little salt so much as will suffice made first into fine powder and when the salt is dissolved convey one drop of the medicine into the grieved Eye morning and evening and this will take away the Pearle and the Eye will become as cleare as the other ✚ This I have often tryed and found it to do rare cures in this kinde Now for a Pin and web any of these ensuing will cure it Take the sword of a Gammon of Bacon and dry it Pin anâ— and make it into powder blow thereof into the grieved Eye ✚ This is good Another Take the juyce of ground-Ivy alias Ale-hoofe Selendine life-hony and womans milke of each of these so much as will suffice mixe all these well and put it into the Eye of the Horse ✚ Another Take the powder of the bottome of a Brasse pot the outermost black being first taken off the next powder let it be blown into the Eye of the Horse and it will helpe him Another Take the powder of burnt Alume or of a black-flint or the powder of Ginger eyther of these made into fine powder and blowne into the Eye of the Horse will helpe a Pinne and webbe Another Take â—â—lt Arment and make it into very fine powder and put thereto of life-honey and fresh butter of each so much as will suffice incorporate all these well together and so convey of this medicine into the Eye of the Horse and this will cure a Pin and web ✚ But if there be a Hawe Hawe
in the Eye this every Smith can take away neverthelesse whereas all other Ferriers that ever I saw worke upon this disease do use to take it away from the out-side of the Eye I doe take it away from that part which lyeth next of all to the eye and I doe finde my way to be much better and a safer way as well whereby to preserve the sight of the eye as also the wash and so soone as I have cut out the Haw I doe use to wash the eye with white Wine and the juyce of selendine mingled together of each a like much for this healeth the sorance and keepeth the eye from rankling Now I have oft times seene the French Marishals take up the wash of the eye with a Spanish needle threeded with a double brown threed and to pluck forth the Haw so farre as he well can then with a payre of sizers to clip off the Haw so close as he can but I cannot commend this manner of curing the Haw for by that meanes he cutteth away the wash of the eye which indeed is the beauty of the eye whereby the Horse becommeth bleare-eyed which is in him a very great eye-sore he being thereby very much disfigured ✚ But if your Horse have gotten a canker in his eye then Eye a Canker Take Ale-hoofe which is indeed your true ground Ivy and stamp it well in a morter and if it be very dry then moysten it with a little white Rose-water or the water of Eye-bright distilled as much as will suffice and so straine it into a cleane glasse and therewith wash bathe annoynt and taint the sorance therewith and in short time it will cure it ✚ This is very good to cure a Canker a Pin and Web bloud shotten eyes or any such griefe in or about the eyes and I have often made use of this medicine Another much better Take of stone Coperas a thing knowne to few and therefore very hard to get but in the stead thereof you may use ordinary white Coperas make it into fine powder as much as will suffice for I must leave the quantity to your owne discretion and put it into a small Pipkin and put thereto so much very faire cleare running or Well water as will fill up the Pipkin to the very top then set the Pipkin upon a few coales and cause the water to boyle but so treatibly as it may but onely simper and as the scum doth arise take it away with a feather continuing so to doe till the scum doe leave to arise any more and when you have sufficiently well boyled it take it off and let it stand till it be through cold then poure away the cleare from the bottome which must be cast away and the cleare kept in a glasse viall very close stopped and bound up for your use which being thus carefully kept the water will remaine in its perfection long yea a whole yeare together or longer This water cureth almost all diseases in the eyes as Filmes Pearles weeping eyes Pin and Web Dragons Cataracts dimnesse of sight Blindenesse Rheumaâ—icke watry stroake blow or stripe of or in the eye and so consequently in many other cases of the like nature ✚ And of this water I have had great experience Another Take Sal-Armoniack Lapis-Tulia prepared Sagina called in Latine Panicum-Indicum and of Ginger of each halfe an ounce and of white sugar-candy two ounces powder all these and searse them and being well mixed put this powder into a cleane and dry boxe very close stopped and so keep it that no ayre come to it for your use and when you have occasion to use of this powder take a little thereof and mixe with it of the juyce of ground Ivy alias Ale-hoofe as much as will suffice and so twice a day convey thereof into his eye with a feather till it be throughly whole ✚ This is a principall good receit I will give you another speciall good receit which will cure all manner of sore eyes Take the leaves and roots of Vervine ordinary honey and Roman Vitrioll of each like much beat bruise and mixe these together and put it into a stillitory glasse and distill it by Balnea-Maria with a gentle fire and the water you take into your Receptacle put into a viall glasse and keepe it very close stopped that no ayre get into it and when you are to use of the same water poure of it a little into a silver spoone and mixe with it of the fat of a Henne or Capon a small quantity and therewith annoynt the sore eye twice a day and it will cure the same perfectly ✚ I will give you another receit which will take the filme from off the eye albeit there be a very great and thicke skin growne Take the gall of a Hare and life honey of each like much put them together into a spoon and hold the spoone over the fire till the medicine be bloud warme and with a feather convey part of this medicine into the eye of the Horse and thus dresse him morning and evening and in short time it will take it quite away so as the eye will become as bright and cleare againe as ever it was before ✚ This receit I doe hold no whit inferiour to any of the former for I have often made use thereof But if your Horse have gotten a stripe in the eye then let him bloud in the necke and in the weeping veyne on the same side where the stripe is then Take white Rose-water and the white of a new laid egge beat them very well together then wash and bathe the eye well therwith and lay round about it with your splatter this charge restringent Take Masticke Bolearmonacke Sanguis Draconis the white of a new laid egge and white wine vineger of the strongest Eye a charge beat first the hard simples to very fine powder and then searse them and they must be beaten severally then mixe them all together with the white of the egge and the vineger so well wrought as that the medicine come to a thicke oyntment and with this charge the sorance round about the eye and this will keepe off the humour and when that you finde that the eye doth begin to amend then wash and bathe the eye twice or thrice a day or oftner with cold fountaine or Well water so fresh as it is taken or drawne out of the Well or Fountaine and if after you shall perceive that there doth grow a filme or skin over the eye then take it away by blowing or putting the powder of Camphire or Sol Armoniacum or white sugar-Candy in fine powder according as I have before prescribed you ✚ This is a most soveraigne receit Also if your Horse in his eye have gotten a stripe Take of fresh Butter wherein never came salt the quantity of a Walnut and put it into his eare on that side where the stripe is and it will helpe him
if your horse be poore bare leane Fat horse and feeble so that his stomack be good to meate I will give you a Receit which if you doe duly observe my rules justly as I shall deliver them you shall get him up into flesh in twelve or foureteene dayes First therefore take bloud from him if you do find it grosse or Flâ—gmatick for otherwise he cannot possibly mend then insteade of Oates in the morning you shall give him Wheate branne Bran prepared prepared after this manner Set over the fire a cleane Kettle and fill it almost full with faire water and so soone as it boyleth put in your Wheate branne and so let it boyle a quarter of an houre at the least then take it off and let it stand to coole and about foure or five in the morning give him of this branne so hot as he can eate it then for his drinke give him of the same water and at night give him Oates and white water and let him be kept covered and littered warme but if it bee Summer let not the Stable be too hot but temperate and at night give him with his Oates also the quantity of what you may coâ—vey into an Egge-shell of this powder following with which you must continue him the space of eight dayes or according as you shall see cause You must understand that this branne thus prepared is the only thing which dryeth up his naughty grosse and corrupt humours and doth the better prepare the body to assume lust courage strength and flesh together with the helpe of the powder which is this Take of Commin Fenugrick Sileris-Montani Nutmegs Cloves Ginger Linseed of each two ounce Quick-Brimstone six ounce Fat a leanâ— horse make all these into powder of this powder give him every night the quantity of an Eg-shell full with his Oates as I have before prescribed but he must first be watred with white water which so soone as hee hath drunke let his whole body be rubbed then cloathed littered which being done then give him a small sheafe of wheat straw sweet good and well threshed into his Racke and let him eate thereof by the space of an houre which done give him Oates mixed with his powder which when he hath eaten give him Hay at your pleasure remembring to keep him warm but so as with moderation and let him be also well rubbed especially against the hayre and by this doing in short time you shall perceive him to mend exceedingly but you must put also into his Oates together with its former powder of Nettle-seed two handfuls every time for that is the thing which principally will cause him to battle It will also greatly availe to his amendment if he be ayered every morning and evening an houre after sunne rising and an houre before sunne set if the weather be warme and the sunne doe shine ✚ And this I doe assure you is the most exquisite course can be taken whereby to sâ—t up a leane Horse and to make a poor Horse fat in little time and with small charge §. 5. F. Hippoph VVHat helpe have you for the falling of the Fundament Hippos This malady commeth to a Horse sometimes by cold sometimes through weakenesse and meere poverty and sometimes by meanes of a laxativenesse and fluxe of bloud when straining to expell the Horse is not able and by that meanes the fundament commeth out the cure is Falling of the fundament Take white-Salt made into very fine powder strew a little upon the gut then take a piece of Lard and first having boyled Mallow-leaves till they be soft take of these leaves and beat them well with the Lard and when it is sufficiently beaten make it up like to a suppository and apply it to the place every day once till it be whole ✚ This I have often tryed §. 6. F. Hippoph I Should be very glad to know what you can say of Feavers Hippos Sir as touching feavers in Horses I say that they be as subject to them as man is as also that these feavers are of severall natures which cannot be denied which may most easily be distinguished and knowne if you please diligently to observe A feaver commeth many times either by intemperate riding or travell or else through bad and unwholesome dyet and all feavers for the most part have their sourse from these effects if you adde thereunto evill ayre §. 7. F. Hippoph VVHy Hipposerus how doe you define a Feaver Hippos I define it thus A Feaver is an unnaturall and intemperate heat which beginneth at the heart dilateth it self through all the arteries and veynes of the whole body of the Horse hindring all his naturall motions howsoever some Ferriers are pleased to make of them more sorts then I will question their physicall and learned distinctions for I could never conclude them but in a few as quotidian tertian quartan and pestilent and yet all these be of one nature albeit some more malignant then others be onely a Hectique feaver is of a different nature from the former and so also a pestilent feaver may be Now as touching feavers which come in the Spring Summer Autumne or Winter I cannot see why they should be feavers different in nature from these other for there are not any of these but may come to a Horse in any of these seasons §. 8. F. Hippoph FRom whence doe Feavers proceed then Hippos First Sir you must understand that Feavers are of two sorts that is to say Ordinary and Accidentall the ordinary feavers are those that come of surfets over-riding and labour unwholesome meat as moyst raw mouldy and musty bread corne provender and hay of what nature sort or condition soever but your feavers Accidentall come of some terâ—ible stroke or deep wound bringing therewith insufferable paine dolour and griefe to the poor beast again your ordinary Feavers come oft times by the extreame violent scorching of the Sunne but most commonly in the canicular dayes as when your Horse is abroad at grasse where is either want of water or having such as is neither good or wholesome or else where is want of housing shelter to goe into or shady trees to be under and such kinde of Agues doe prove for the most part either Hectike or Pestilent feavers for by that meanes his bloud becommeth inflamed whereby the humour of choller is predominate Now Sir if you be pleased to observe strictly and carefully you shall also finde that feavers doe come many times also from a quite contrary cause as from cold taken upon hard riding or great labour and by having at such times cold water given him to drink or by washing or walking having sweat much or by being out too late in the gripse or shutting in of the evening or upon day breaking especially neere or among fenny moorish or marish grounds by reason that naughty vapours do arise from such kinde of places Feavers also do accrew to Horses when upon hard
only apply the medicine taught you in lib 2. chap. 16. § 10. L. for the Poll-evill ✚ This whay is also good to cure the bloudy Riftes Bladders Canker in the mouth Barbs Pappes and all Feavers and Maladies in the Mouth Another Take life-hony seven spoonfuls and Verde-grease halfe an ounce and boyle them till the hony bee halfe consumed and that it is become red then put it into some cleane pot and annoynt the sorance therewith made warme twice every day and when you have thus annoynted it cast upon the place Hurds cut very short to keep on the oyntment and this will in short time heale it up very sound ✚ This is most soveraign for any shackle-galde which commeth eyther by lock cord or shackle but if your Horse be desperately galled in any part of his body as by the girt or otherwise then Take of Verjuyce of the Crab two quarts of greene Copperas two penny-worth and boyle them together to one pint and a halfe and wash the sorance therewith very well and after fill up the hole if any be with the powder of red-leade and so let it remaine three dayes untoucht then wash it as before and fill it with your red ointment againe and thus in two or three times dressing it will heale up bee the galling never so dangerous ✚ This have I often used §. 3. G. Hippoph VVHat is best to bee done to a Horse that is Gravelled Hippos This malady commeth when a horse in his travell hath gotten gravell betwixt the sole and the hoofe which setleth at the quicke and there fretteth and festreth you shall soone know it by his halting and complayning upon the same foot which so soone as you do perceive take up the foote and you shall feele it warmâ—t in that place then in any other part of the foote and if you make tryall with your Pinsors Gravelling you shall perceive him to shrinke and to yeeld when you nip him against that place Take off the shooe and with your drawing iron draw the place till you come unto the quick picke forth all the gravell and crush forth the matter and bloud cleane then wash the sore cleane with your Copperas water taught you in the next ensuing Paragraph then poure upon the sore sheeps-Tallow and Bay-salt molten together of each so much as will suffice and let it bee poured into the wound scalding hot then stop up the hole with hurds and set on the shooe againe and at two or three times dressing it will be whole but till he be through well do not travell him neyther let his foote come into any wet ✚ This is a certaine cure Another Search and draw the place as before and get forth all the gravell then stop the place with Hogs-grease and Turpentine molten together pouring it into the wound scalding hot and stop it up with hurds and tack on the shooe and keepe his foote from wet and hee will soone bee whole This is also very good Another Be you certaine that you have gotten forth all the gravell and corruption then Take Virgin-waxe one ounce Rosin and Deeres-suet of each two ounces Bores-grease halfe an ounce and of Sea-greene alias House-leeke one head incorporate all these together in a Morter then melt them over a very gentle fire and so apply it hot to the sorance and stop it up with hurds and tack on the shooe and in few dressings it will cure it ✚ This is a speciall good cure § 4. G. Hippoph HOw doe you make your greene oyntment you doe so much commend Hippos Sir this Vnguent which I doe so much commend unto you is the most rare and soveraigne thing that I ever yet saw or knew for the cure of any sores whether old or greene Vlcers Fistulas Poll euills or what else for where this oyntment commeth no proud or dead flesh will grow no flies will adventure neere the place where this oyntment is laid and for a Horse or Mare-Filly that is cut gelt or spla annnoynt but the place and they will neyther swell or fester whereby the creature is the further of from danger for this Vnguent doth not only heale soundly and well but speedily also provided you lay nothing upon the wound or sorance where the oyntment is administred as neyther hurds lint plaisters or the like unlesse you may have occasion to Taint a wound which is extraordinary deepe 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 daies it will heale the better and faster especially if it be brought into good forwardnesse of healing And together with this Vnguent you may do well to wash the sorance with the water I call the Copperas water which by reason it is alwaies first to be used I will set it downe first and the Greene-oyntment shall assume the second place Take faire water two quarts and put it into a cleane Postnet and put thereto of greene Copperas halfe a pound Copperas â—ter and of salt one handfull and of ordinary Honey one spoonefull and a branch or two of Rosemary boyle all these till one halfe of the water bee consumed and a little before you take it from the fire put to it the quantity of a Doves egge of Alume then take it from the fire and when it is cold put the water into a glasse and stop it up close and keepe it for your use and when you are to dresse any sore first wash it cleane with this water and if the wound be deepe iniect it with a seringe ✚ This water of it selfe will cure any reasonable sore or wound but the greene oyntment being applyed after it is washed will heale any old Vlcer or Fistula whatsoever if they come to the bottome of them and for greene wounds they have not their fellow the Greene-oyntment is thus made Take a cleane Skillet or Postnet Greene-oyâ—ment and first put into it of Rosin the quantity of a wall-nut which being molten put to it the like quantity of wax and when that is also molten put to them of tryed-Hogs-grease halfe a pound and so soone as that is molten put into the rest of common English Hony one spoonfull when all these are molten and well stirred together then put in of ordinary Turpentine halfe a pound and so soone as it is dissolved take it from the fire and put into the Skillet of Verdegrease made into very fine powder one ounce and so stirre it well al together but be carefull it runne not over for that the Verde-grease will cause it to arise then set it againe upon the fire till it do beginne a little to simper then take it off for if you suffer it to boyle it will turne red and lose its vertue of healing and become a Corasive then straine it through a cloth into some earthen Pot or Pipken and keepe it for your use laying something upon the mouth of the
with a sicknesse of this nature yea peradventure a whole yeere or two before together during which time he hath continually wasted and languished wherefore he cannot be strong but a very weake Horse and therefore his physicke must be very gentle yet such also which may have operation whereby to work otherwise physicke is but cast away The signes how to know this disease need no further description and therefore I will proceed to the cure for the which I will deliver you many receits some whereof I have well experienced to which I will give my particular marke like as I have formerly done And I do the rather insert the more receits because as I have before remembred that receit which will not cure one will cure another Glanders The first therefore that is to be done in this case is to prepare his body by giving him for four or five dayes together in stead of his Oates and Provender wheat Bran prepared like as I have before shewed you in the cases of sick Horses especially in lib. 2. cap. 9. § 4. F. to qualifie and dry up his moyst and bad humours abounding in him then let him bloud in the neck and the next day rake him and give him this Clister Make a decoction of Mallowes one pinte and a halfe and put unto it of fresh Butter foure ounces and of Sallet oyle a quarter of a pinte and administer it bloud warme and then with a strappe of leather tye it to his tayle and then fasten the other end of the said strap to his Sursingle so straight that his tayle must be close to his tuell that he cannot purge till it be loosened then mount his back and let him be gently ridden sometimes a foot pace and sometimes an easie trot for halfe an hour then set him up warm clothed and littered and let him stand upon the Trench three hours during which time he will purge kindely then give him white water and Hay and at night a few Oats for he must be kept to a spare dyet The next day annoynt two long Goose-feathers with the powder of Brimstone and fresh Butter being first well wrought together till it be brought to the colour of gold put them into either nostrill and fasten them to his headstall as is before taught you and so ride him an houre or two for this will purge his head and cause him to send forth mattrative stuffe which abideth in his head and lungs then bring him in and take them forth and an houre after give him Hay and white water and Bran prepared which also he should have given him before his riding abroad The next day give him his Clister againe and so let him rest for that day but ordered in all things as before The next day give him his Goose feathers again annoynted as before and ordered in the like manner as you did before and all this is but to prepare him for his after drinke but remember to keep him alwaies warme and let him bee evermore fasting and empty when he is to have any kind of Physicke administred unto him and let him be ayered morning and evening if the sunne shine or that it be otherwise warm and calm weather And having thus begun with him three dayes after give him this drink Take of Aqua vitae halfe a pinte and of white wine one pinte Aristolochia-Rotunda Agarick Gentian Bay-berries Myrrha Ivory Aloes of each three drams make all these into fine powder each one by it selfe then mixe them very well and put them into a clean Posnet with the Wine and Aqua vitae and so warm it upon the fire then being well brewed give it him bloud warm This drink must be given thrice to wit every third day and he made to fast three houres after and after ordered as is accustomed with horses in Physicke during which time and some time after let him drink no cold water but most commonly white water which once or twice in a week may be changed into a sweet Mash and let him eate the Bran and Malt and dyet and feed him so as that he may be kept to a stomack but be carefull you neither cloy nor pine him Instead of the Oats which you should give him let them sometimes be changed into bread if he will eat it and sometimes you may give him in stead of Oats some Wheat either in the eares which is best or else Wheat threshed and cleared ready for the Mill. ✚ Truely with this cure as I have set it you down I have recovered many horses But you must understand that this malady as it hath runne along upon the horse before it come to that height as to be so rank a Glanders to be termed the mourning of the chine so will it aske a long time to cure and therfore you must not think that it can be cured with this one only course of Physick but you must let him rest a few dayes whereby he may the better gather strength and then to him again and again but take no more bloud from him and as you doe perceive him to gather flesh and get strength so let his exercise be increased but withall so as not to over-labour him or to cause him to sweat violently nor yet straine his winde too much Another If you do finde that together with his Glanders he hath the Strangles that is that he be oppressed with inflamations under the chaule clip away the hayre from about the place and clap a piece of sheeps skin newly killed over all the place which must be daily renewed and you must keep warme not only that place but his Poll also then Take Basilicon old Bores grease and Dialthea of each four ounces and of oyle de Bay one ounce beat all these very well together then annoynt the place enflamed once every day at the least and then put to the sheeps skin and so keep it on till it be ripe enough then open it and put into the orifice a taint of Basilicon for three or four dayes then heale up the wound with taints of Aegyptiacum prescribed you in lib. 2. cap. 4. § 4. lit A. and during the time of his cure give him Wheat Bran as well dry as prepared and for his drink let it be white water unlesse sometimes a Mash keep him warm and after five or sixe dayes ride him abroad with the Goose feather in his nose annoynted as is before advised you and if he do runne at nose very much then take a stick and wrap a fine linnen rag about it and annoynt it very well with black sope and put it into his nostrils a good way but not so as to cause him to bleed and doe this three or four times a day or else Take the seed of Pordo accenta and bruise it made up in sweet Butter so much of the seed as you may take up betwixt your thumb and two fingers at a time ✚ This is very good
speciall good Hippoph What is good for the Head-ach Hippos First let him bloud in the mouth and rub it with Salt to cause it to bleed the more then take two long feathers of a Goose wing well annoynted in oyle de Bay thrust them up and down his nostrils whereby to open and purge his head and then perfume his head with the stalks of Garlick broken into small pieces as is before shewed keeping him to a spare dyet and moderate exercise the better to cleanse his head and stomack and to empty himselfe by meanes whereof the head and braine will be the better quieted Head-ach It were very good also to perfume him with Frankincense Storax and Benjamin grosly beaten and well mixed of each like much as will suffice but two or three dayes after let him bloud and give him white water for eight dayes after during which time you may do well to give him sometimes a sweet Mash ✚ This is very good § 3. H. Hippoph VVHat is good to helpe the heels that be scabbed Hippos You shall many times have small dry Scabs upon your Horse heeles which will not be greatly noxious to him therupon the best cure for his Keeper daily to annoynt them throughly with the oyntment made of Elbow grease But if there be any running humour issuing from the heeles of the Horse Heeles scabbed then let him stand every day morning and evening up to the belly in water till the scabs do dontract then make a convenient Cautherize neer to the joynts as well crosse as thwart wise then heale it up as you use to do kibed heeles ✚ This is very good § 4. H. Hippoph WHat is good for heels that be kibed Hippos This disease the French do call Iavarrs which is a kinde of Scratches and the cure is to Cautherize the middle of the swelling along both long and crosse-wise that done Heeles kibed take Oxe dung reeking hot mixe it upon the fire with Sallet oyle and apply it to the sorance once and no more then do afterwards as is prescribed you in a cure for a Splent in lib. 2. cap. 18. § 17. S. This I never tryed §. 5. H. Hippoph WHat cure have you for heels that are troubled with the Mellet Hippos This sorance we call the mellet is a dry scab that groweth upon the heele sometimes on the one and sometimes on the other heele sometimes it commeth of corrupt bloud sometimes of a blow given by the toe with the hinder foot for the mellet growes commonly upon the heele of the fore-foot and sometimes for want of good rubbing and dressing after travell it will also have a dry chop without any moysture at all The signes to know it is easie to wit it will soon be felt with your hand Heele Mellet To cure it I have before shewed you in § precedenti But yet I will give you one receit more for the same cure whereof I have made often tryall and it is very good Take of ordinary Honey halfe a pinte black Sope a quarter of a pound mixe these together and put thereto four or five spoonfuls of Vineger and as much Allum finely beaten as a Hens egge unburned and of Rye-flowre two spoonfuls mixe and incorporate all these well together and having first clipped or shaven away the hayre apply this medicine plaister-wise to the sorance just so farre as the sorance goeth and let it so remain five dayes and then take it away and wash all the legge foot and sorance with powdred beefe broth after rope up his legs with thumbands of soft Hay wet and he wil be sound But then you must understand that when at any time you do dresse the sorance you do not faile to take off the dry scab or whatever crusty thing shall be upon or about the place and by washing and cleansing the sore that you do make it marvellous clean ✚ This is a very good receit §. 6. H Hippoph VVHat is good to helpe a Horse that is Hide-bound Hippos This malady is when the skin of the horse doth cleave to the flesh as you cannot with your hand pull up the skin from the ribs sometimes it commeth through extreame poverty and maceration and sometimes through the indiscretion of the Groome for want of good tending sometimes of a surfet taken by over-riding and violent heats given him and then washed or negligently suffered to stand long in the cold or in the raine and sometimes again it commeth of corrupt cholericke bloud siccicating the flesh which wanting its naturall course causeth the skin to shrink and cling together and to cleave to the bones and flesh it also maketh him sick and to have a gaunt belly shrunk up to his flankes and his hayre will stare and his legges will swell and by these signes you may know the disease it is so conspicuous It causeth also siccity and aridity in the liver and lungs causing great torment throughout all the whole body and his dung will be very hard and dry and of a naughty savour for his body will be very costive and if he have not help in reasonable time if death it selfe ensue not yet will at the last other desperate maladies attach him whereof the least will be the mainge which will not easily or suddenly be cured The cure is to let him bloud either on both sides the necke or on both the spur-veines then cloth and litter him warm and do no more unto him that day more then to give him good meat and white water for cold water he must not drink till he be throughly well againe The next day give him this drink Hide-bound Take of white wine one pinte of Sallet oyle one pound of Venice Turpentine one ounce of Methridate of loafe Sugar and of Cassia prepared of each two ounces of the milk of sweet Almonds halfe a pinte and of Verjuyce of the Crab one penny worth mixe all these well together and warming it upon the fire give it to the sick horse let him have this drink sixe or seven mornings together alwayes having a speciall care to the strength of the Horse as well in this as in all other your cures ✚ This is a cure I have used very often and haue found it to be speciall good Another singular good receit First annoynt his body all over with Acopum and Sacke warmed together or else with this Bath Take faire water Mallowes Smalage Rosemary and Bay leaves boyle all these in the water till they shall become soft and so bath his whole body therewith warm and when you have dryed him again annoint him with this unguent Take of Hogs grease tryed one pound Camomile Mallowes Grunsell Smallage of each one handfull chop the hearbs very small and boyle them with the Hogs grease a good while with a soft fire then strain it and wring forth the oyle that commeth of the hearbs and with this Vnguent annoynt his body all over for it will
it will comfort the Frush very much but if the hoofe be naturally brittle and by foundring become dry and streightned then to enlarge the same and to make it the more tough and to grow the better also Take of Hogs grease Turpentine and Masticke of each like much and halfe so much Lard as of either of them melt all these but the Turpentine on the fire and when it is well dissolved take it off and then put in your Turpentine stirring it well till it be throughly incorporate then keep it in a stone pot by it selfe and when it is through cold be sure to stop the pot very close and so reserve it for your use With this Salve annoynt the coffines but especially the Cronets every day twice at the least and it will cause the hoofe to grow very much and become tough and sound ✚ This I have often used and it is very good § 2. I. Hippoph VVHat is good to ripen an Impostumation Hippos To ripen any swelling which doth impostumate you shall know by the heat for if you lay you hand theron it will be hot and burne wherefore to prepare and make it ready to be opened Impostumation to ripen Take Mallow roots and white Lilly roots of each like much bruise them and put to them Hogs grease and Linseed meale of each so much as will suffice and boyle them till they be soft and so plaister-wise apply it to the griefe ✚ § 3. I. Hippoph VVHat is good for any inward sicknesse in a Horse Hippos I have shewed you that sufficiently before in lib. 2. cap. 3. § 6. A. where I give you three excellent receits together neverthelesse if you doe finde that your horse doe not thrive but droop and impaire I will here give you one receit more which I doe know to be most singular and will doe him much good and whereof I have had very long and great good experience First therfore if you do see cause take bloud from him but not otherwise and if he be subject to costivenesse then administer unto him either a Clister or a Suppository and the day following give him this drinke Take Aristolochia Rotunda Bay berries Gentiam Anniseeds Inward sicknessâ— Ginger and of Trifora-Magna of each one ounce beat all the simples to very fine powder and mixe them well together then take of white Wine one quart or of Sacke the like proportion which is better then put of this powder and of your Trifora-Magna one spoonfull into the Wine Salet oyle halfe a pinte and of Mithridate two drams warm these upon the fire and so administer it bloud warme and let him be exercised as well before as after his drinke but not so farre as to sweat by any meanes neither let him drinke any cold water in foure or five dayes after but either warm Mashes or else white water ✚ This is most soveraigne for any inward sicknesse droopings forsaking of meat Feavers Colds Coughs or the like § 3. I. Hippoph YOu speake hereof administring a Suppository but what Suppository were best to be given in a case of this nature Hippos I will shew you Sir if your Horse be so ficke whereby you feare to give him any strong medicine and that he be costive withall then give him this Suppository following Take of Honey sixe ounces of Salâ—niter one ounce and a halfe Inward sicknessâ— Supposiâ— of Wheat flower and of Anniseeds in fine powder of each one ounce boyle all these to a hard thicknesse and then make it into Suppositories and first annoynt your hand with Sallet oyle or sweet Butter and the Suppository also which he is to take and so convey it into his fundament a pretty way and after tye his tayle betwixt his legges as I have elsewhere shewed you or else hold it close to his body with your hand by the space of a quarter of an houre at the least till it be throughly dissolved and this will cause him to purge kindly and it will very much coole and loosen his guts then you may be the more bold to administer what Drinkes Cordials or other things which you may thinke most requisite for his recovery ✚ §. 4. I. Hippoph VVHat is good to ripen inflamations Pustils and Kernels which doe grow under the chaule of the Horse Hippos This commeth to a horse that hath either Cold or Glanders which must be dissolved otherwise the Horse can never be cured Jnflamations wherefore take Wheat Bran two handfuls and so much Wine Ale or Beere as one quart with which to thicken it put to it of Hogs grease halfe a pound boyle these together till the liquor be quite consumed and so apply it to the place so hot as the horse may well suffer it renewing it every day once till it do of it selfe breake or be so soft to be opened then let forth the corruption and taint it with a taint of flaxe dipped in this Salve Take of Turpentine and of Hogs grease of each like much and of Rosin and Waxe a much greater quantity melt all these together and with the said taynt dipped in this medicine put it into the wound renewing it every day once till it be whole ✚ This is an approved receit But if it be an inflamation impostumating in any other part of the body take then the grounds of a Beere-Barrell foure quarts of Smalage Penny-royall Winter-Savory Cumfrey Rue and of the leaves and berries of the Missell-tow of each two handfuls chop all these very small and put them to the said grounds and put to it of Sheeps or Deere Suet tryed one pound and three or foure handfuls of Rye or Wheat Bran so much indeed as will serve to boyle this to a Poultesse and when it is boyled as much as will suffice apply it to the place and if the swelling be very much impostumated it will breake it or at the least so soften it that it may be opened if it be hard at what time you put your Poultesse thereunto it will send it backe again without more to doe ✚ This I have very much experimented and have found it to be right good But if he be troubled with the Strangles and that he is very much inflamed under the chaule then cure them thus take Basilicon old Bores grease and Dialthea of each foure ounces of oyle de Bay one ounce incorporate all these well together and first clipping away the hayre from under the chaule annoynt the swelling and inflamed place therewith very well this done binde upon it a piece of Sheeps skin with the Wooll next to the inflamation that the warmth thereof may the better helpe to ripen the Pustils which being ripened open them and let forth the corruption that done taynt it first for three or foure dayes with Basilicon onely but after heale up the sorance with your blacke Aegyptiacum taught you in lib. 2. chap. 4. § 4. A. and during the time of this cure let him
cold or Glanders prevent heart-sicknesse purge away all molten grease recover a lost stomacke keep the heart from fainting in and after hard travell and violent riding and exercise and these pils will raise a leane Horse and make him fat suddenly Take Anniseeds Comin dryed Elecampane Canthamus of each two ounces make all these into very fine powder and searce them then adde unto them of the powder of Brimstone and of the juyce of Licoris of each one ounce which said juyce of Licoris must be dissolved in white Wine one pinte then take of the oyle of Anniseeds and of the Sirrop of Colts foot of each one ounce of Sallet oyle and life Honey of each halfe a pinte mixe all these with the former ingredients and with as much fine wheat flower as will knead it into a stiffe paste and so make it up into pils somewhat bigger then a French Walnut and so keep them close stopped in a glasse or galley pot for they will last good the whole yeare and when you shall have occasion to use them take forth one and annoynt it all over with sweet Butter and so give it your horse and continue thus to do every morning one for some time and ride him a little after the taking thereof gently if the weather be temperate and let him stand upon the Snaffle or trench three houres after then feed him and at night you may either give him a Mash or white water ✚ and thus doe if it be to prevent sicknesse three or foure mornings together but if it be to take away any infirmity as Cold Glanders or the like then administer it eight or ten dayes together at the least but if it be to cleanse his body from molten grease or to take away foulenesse then give it him either in his heat or presently after but if it be to make him fat being meager poore and leane then use it fifteen dayes at the least If you shall finde any difficulty in the giving of this pill you may then at your pleasure dissolve it either in sweet Wine or else in good Ale or Beere and so give it him with a horn drench-wise ✚ The other pill is Take of Wheat flower one pound or so much as shall suffice to make a stiffe paste then take of Anniseeds Fenugricke Brimstone of each two ounces Sallet oyle one pinte common Honey one pound and a halfe white Wine two quarts make the hard simples into fine powder and searce them then with the residue make a stiffe paste and of this paste make a pill the bignesse of a mans fist and dissolve it into two or three gallons of faire water by washing and laving the said paste therin within your hands so let your horse drink the same at his ordinary watering times or at any other time when he is willing to drink for he cannot drink too much of this water then ride him to warme it in his belly but not otherwise and when the water is spent doe not cast away the bottome but filling againe the vessell wherein he drinketh wâ—â—h fresh water the next time he drinketh dissolve another ball therein and thus do for fifteen dayes together at least and you shall see some wonderfull effects thereof This water scowreth cleanseth and feedeth after an admriable manner and the former lesser pils doe purge the stomacke and entrals from all foulenesse it voydeth and carrieth away in his ordure molten and dissolved grease and fortifieth nature so powerfully as that it leaveth no evill humours in the body ✚ This was taught me by a Scotch man who was Groome in Prince Henry his Stable under Monsieur Saint Anthony and a singular good Groome he was I have often times made proofe and use thereof and have found it to be right good and for that reason I doe rather commend it unto you § 4. P. Hippoph VVHat good Antidote or preservative have you for the Pestilence Hippos This disease which we call the Pestilence or Plague hath also sundry other names for some doe call it the murraine others the garget others the gargill and the French doe call it mal de montaine the montaine evill it is a most contagious and infectious disease it is sometimes engendred of a surfet by riding when the horse afterwards taketh cold and sometimes it commeth of the contagiousnesse of the ayre as when a horse commeth upon a sudden into fenny or marish places where he never was before having been ever bred and kept in pure sweet and wholesome ayre as one hapned to a young Gelding of my own when I comming into the hundreds in Essex and travelling late I came to my Inne where my Horse the very next day fell into a pestilent Feaver whereof he had doubtlesse dyed had I not administred help instantly wherefore whensoever you do suspect your horse to be never so little touched with this mallady remove him presently lest he should infect so many horses as be in the same Stable with him This comes also to a horse many times by meanes of corrupt bloud and bad humours which doe lye lurking in his body which washing drinking being hot and surfets do often cause but let it come as it may it brings with it a pestilent Feaver which is seconded by ensuing death if speedy prevention be not at hand The signes be these after that he hath drooped and languished two three or foure dayes at most he will begin to swell under the roots of his eares as if he had the vines and under the chaule and so this swelling will run up his cheeks through the malignancy of the disease and become very hard he will hang down his head and face and seeme alway to sleepe and forsake his meat and his eyes will be yellowish he will draw his breath short which will be also very hot and offensive and sometimes he will put forth Carbuncles and swellings in his groine bigger then a mans fist and his stones will hang but this not alwaies and this I have known in Horses more then in one or two The cure is Take of white Wine one quart and the hearb called in French Pestileâ— Mairelle which we in English doe tearme Nighte-shade stamp it and take the juyce thereof and boyle it in the Wine and when it is boyled as much as will suffice take then Linseed meale and Barly meale and sift out the bran taking only the flower of them both as much as will suffice and put it into the liquor and so boyle them againe to a Poultesse and make plaisters thereof and apply it to the swellings but before you lay on the plaister strew upon them the powder of burnt Egge shels and thus renewing the plaisters every day once you shall either ripen or breake them or they will drive the swellings back againe without further trouble but if the swellings doe breake then heale them with your green oyntment so often shewed you but then to drive away the
corrupt the bloud and consequently the flesh and at the last breaketh forth into this malady which we call the Quick-scab Quick sâ— And the reason why we do give it this name is for that it runneth from one member of the horse to the other sometimes it will be in the neck and at other times in the breast of the horse now in the maine and then in the tayle c. The cure is First shâ—ve oâ— clip away the hayre from that place visited so close as may be and take off the scurfe and scabs with some old Curry-Comb Oyster-shell or some such like thing Then Take faire cold water with a linnen cloth wash and bathe the places very well and lay the linnen cloth well wet upon the place and so touch it no more in ten dayes and if in that time the quick-scab do not heale then dresse it as before and so a third time or a fourth or so oft as necessity requireth till it be throughly healed But remember that the day before you thus dresse the sorance after this manner you take to a reasonable quantity of bloud from the neck-vein ✚ This is an approved cure Another as good as the former First let him bloud and then shave or clip away the hayre close as in the former cure Then take Mallowes and Marsh-Mallowes of each like much and boyle them in faire water as much as will suffice till the hearbs be soft and with the hearbs and decoction bathe and wash the sorance two or three dayes together warme then take of common Honey one pinte Coperas Allum of glasse and Verdigrece all made into fine powder of each four ounces Turpentine and Quick-silver mortified of each two ounces boyle all these together with the Honey unto an Vnguent and herewith dresse him every day till he be whole ✚ This I say is very good § 2. Q. Hippoph HOw doe you cure a Quitter-bone Hippos This commeth to a horse by some hurt he hath taken in the foot either by a pricke with a nayle in shooing or by graveling or by a stub or the like when it was not so well healed that it impostumated and so brake out above the cronet which bred the malady or else being neglected it brake out above the hoofe before it was perceived It is bred also sometimes by a hurt upon the hoofe by a blow or by striking one foot upon the other and sometimes it commeth by evill humours which fall down into that place and it groweth most usually upon the in-side of the foot where when it beginneth it causeth a hard round swelling upon the cronet of the hoofe betwixt the heele and the quarter of the long talent it begetteth an Vlcer at what time it doth beginne to impostumate and it breaketh out above the Cronet like as I said before The signes I have already given you for the place will be swelled the bignesse of a hasle nut and the horse will hault right down The cure is so soon as it is espied to open it above if it doe begin to be soft then Take Auripigmentum made into fine powder and infuse it in the strongest white Wine Vineger can be gotten forty eight houres and then apply it to the sore and it will so eat about the Quitter-bone Quitter-bone as that you may pluck it away with your finger or pliers which so soon as the bone or gristle is taken forth you may heale up the wound with your Coperas water and green oyntment prescribed in lib. 2. cap. 10. § 4. G. till it be whole but he must not come into any wet during the time of the cure ✚ This is very good Another First cut the hoofe to the quicke then Take a Snake the greatest you can get and cut off his head and taile and flea it and so boyle it in water till the flesh come from the bone and then you may bring the flesh to be a very oyntment put of this into the sorance down to the bottome and this will kill the Quitter-bone and dry up and heale it but you must not suffer him to come into any wet dirt or gravell during the time you have him in cure ✚ With this medicine I cured one horse onely for that I had no cause to use it to any other since Another Take of Arsenick the quantity of a small beane make it into powder and put it into the hole of the Sorance conveying it downe unto the bottome with your instrument and then stop the mouth of the wound with Hurds and binde it on with a cloth and a rowler that the Horse may not bit it away and so let it remaine foure and twenty houres then open it and if you shall perceive the wound to looke blacke within it is a token that the Arsenick did its office in well working then to allay the fire and to restore the flesh that is thereby become mortified taynt the hole with Turpentine and Hogs-grease molten together Then take Pitch Rosin and Waxe of each like much and of Turpentine as much as of all the other three and melt them and so make a Plaister of Leather with which you must cover the top of the Sorance but first be sure to convey the aforesaid taint to the bottome and then lay on your Plaister and thus dresse him dayly till you have gotten forth the Core or sharpe Gristle if the Arsenick have not eaten it out before for if the Gristle be in the bottome of the wound and uncovered you may raise it with your Fingers or Instrument and so pluck it quite away for till that be out the Sorance will not heale that done heale it up with your green oyntment or else with this Vnguent Take of common-Hony and of Verdegrece in fine powder of each so much as will suffice boyle this till it bee red and therewith Taint the wound till it be whole keeping evermore the mouth of the wound open least it heale up above before it be well healed at the bottome neyther let your Horse come into any wet or go forth of the Stable untill he be throughly cured ✚ Thus I have cured many Quitter-bones Another Cut the place to the quick then take Virgin-wax Pitch of Greece Galbanum Mastick Sagapenum Olibanum and Sallet-oyle of each one ounce and of Deere or Sheeps-suet halfe a pound melt these upon a soft fire and incorporate them well together and therewith Taint and dresse the same till it be whole ✚ This is also very good CHAP. XVIII §. 1. R. Hippophilus WHat is good to cure the red-Red-water Hippos This Red-water is that which issueth out of old incurable Vlcers and Sores which when you shall see it to come forth of any wound then be you assured that it is very hardly or seldome cured till that Water be gotten away for it is a signe that the wound is poysoned with the said Red-water nor could I ever finde any cure for the Red water
which you shall find upon the ground which many do report to be the falling of a Star in the night where it shooteth of each like much incorporate these well together and anoynt the sore twice every day therewith but if you cannot get of this Ielly then adde to the former ingredients a little Arsenick pulverised and in ten or twelve daies this will heale him X. This also is very good Another Take the tender tops of Elder buds and the berries of the bramble while they be red and before they be rip of each one handfull boil them in Wort two quarts and put unto it of Allome the quantity of an Egge and therewith wash and bathe the Sorance good and hot twice every day and this water will cure him X. This is also very good Another Take of Hemlocke a good quantity shread it very small then take of Creame one quart and boyle it with the Hemlock till the Creame do turne into an oyle which done take it from the fire and straine it into a cleane galley pot and keepe it for your use with this anoint the Sorance and it will soone heale it of this I never had tryall Another Take Brimstone and make it into fine powder and mix with it of sweet Butter so much as will suffice to bring it to an Vnguent which will be of the colour of Gold herewith anoint the sores and it will cure them This I never tryed Another Take unslaked Lime Salt and Soot of each like much all made into very fine powder boyle this in the strongest white Wine Vineger you can get so much as will suffice till it become as thicke as a Pultis then soften it with tryed Hogs-grease and so worke it to an Vnguent and herewith anoint the places greived till they be perfectly cured ✚ This is very good but to prevent all sorts of Scratches Kibes Rat-tayles c. take up the Thigh-veynes and your Horse shall never have any of these Maladies or if he have them yet by so doing they will of themselves be cured ✚ This I have oft experienced § 7. S. Hippoph HOw doe you cure a Sit-fast Hippos This Malady the French do call Mal de la Corn it is an hard knob which hath beene formerly a Saddle-gald but by reason that the Owner of the Horse was unwilling to spare his worke till it was fully cured it is converted into a Sit-fast Sit-fast which is oftimes troublesome to the Horse by reason it is growne to a dry knob so hard as a horne The cure is Take the greene outward leaves of a Cabbadge and stamp them with old Boares-grease or tryed Hogs-grease and worke them to an Oyntment and then mount his Back and then set the Saddle to the end that the Oyntment may the better enter or sinke into his Backe and in a few daies it will Cure him ✚ This is a very good cure §. 8. S. Hippoph THere be yet certaine Scabbes which doe grow upon Horse-heeles which Ferriers doe deny to be the Scratches but they will have it to bee a disease wholy different How doe you cure them Hippos Sir men may say what they shall please but I doe assure you these are also plaine Scratches But yet I will give a few Receipts for them Scabs and Scratches Take of Salet-oyle three ounces Red-wax-gummed one ounce common Hony two ounces mixe and melt all these together and make them into an Vuguent with which you must oft anoint the Sores and this will cure them ✚ I have often used it Another Take ordinary Turpentine two ounces new Wax oyle de Bay Quick-Brimstone of each three ounces common Hony one ounce Allome and Zacacon of each halfe an ounce mixe melt and incorporate all those well together and every evening anoint the places grieved therewith having first cleansed the Sorances as before is taught you This I did never try but I hold it to be very good Another Take the strongest white-Wine-Vineger Mustard and Soote of each so much as will suffice and mix them well them adde to them the yolkes of two Egges and of Hogs-grease one ounce Rape-oyle and new Wax of each two ounces quick-Brimstone in fine powder halfe an ounce melt all these and make it into an Vnguent and therewith anoint the grieved Sorances ✚ This I have often tryed and I know it to be very good § 9. S. Hippoph VVHat is good for a Horse that can neither Stale or Dunge Hippos This accident oftimes hapneth to a Horse that is suddenly travelled being newly taken from Grasse or that hath beene long time kept and pampered in the Stable without any execise at all for as those who be too hard Riders do soone surfet their Horses so likewise do these terribly wrong their Horses who be too indulgent and tender of them and therefore the golden meane is evermore the best The signes to know this Malady is plaine for that his paine will bee so great as that it will cause him oft to lye downe and tumble as if he had the Bots. I will give you one onely Receipt which a famous French Marishall gave me with which I cured one Horse for that I had never occasion to practise it upon any since but I do hold it to be most soveraigne in a case of this nature Take the root of Male-Brake or Fearne and put a piece thereof upon his tongue and it will cause him both to stale and dung Stale or dung and so he will be cured The male of Fearne is to be knowne by the root from the female for if you take a Fearne-root and cut it in two pieces you shall see the perfect figure of an Eagle and thereby you may know it to be the male which is for your turne And the female root will beare other effigies different from the male which wanteth its vertue to perfect this cure ✚ This I say I have once tryed § 10. S. Hippoph VVHat is to be done to a Horse that falleth sicke in his iourney or travell Sicke in travell Hippos This also hapneth as the former doth but yet oftner and sooner especially if he be very fat and pursive and wanting breath as also if he be travelled being fat and heavy the Sunne shining and scorching much for such a horse is in danger either to tire or to fall desperately sicke which may also endanger his life as I have frequently knowne The cure must be Take Muskadine or sweet Sacke one pinte Aqua vitae a quarter of a pinte of London Treacle two ounces and of the best Sallet oyle a quarter of a pinte warme all these upon the fire and brew it well and give him one hornfull thereof then take his tongue in your hand and put down his throat a new laid Egge breaking it with your fingers as you put it forth of your hand then give him a second horne full and then another Egge and after all the residue of the drinke and