The honest and plaine dealing fa[r]rier or, A present remedy for curing diseases and hurts in horses Gathered and written as well for the good [o]f any that will practise it, as for my self, there being nothing contained therein but what is of my owne experience and practise. By Thomas Grymes. Grymes, Thomas. 1636 Approx. 27 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 23 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2009-03 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). A02275 STC 12406 ESTC S119059 99854266 99854266 19676 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A02275) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 19676) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 1102:10) The honest and plaine dealing fa[r]rier or, A present remedy for curing diseases and hurts in horses Gathered and written as well for the good [o]f any that will practise it, as for my self, there being nothing contained therein but what is of my owne experience and practise. By Thomas Grymes. Grymes, Thomas. [40] p. Printed by Wil: Iones for Andrew Kembe, dwelling by St: Margarets hill in long Southwarke, London : 1636. Running title reads: A very good remedy for diseases in horses. Signatures: A-B C⁴. The first "r" is "farrier" has dropped out on title page; leaves very tightly bound. Reproduction of the original in the British Library. Created by converting TCP files to TEI P5 using tcp2tei.xsl, TEI @ Oxford. 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Veterinary medicine -- Early works to 1800. 2007-12 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2008-05 SPi Global Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-06 John Pas Sampled and proofread 2008-06 John Pas Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion THE HONEST AND PLAINE DEALING FARIER OR A PRESENT REMEDY FOR curing diseases and hurts in Horses . Gathered and written as well for the good ●f any that will practise it , as for my self , there being nothing contained therein but what is of my owne experience and practise . By THOMAS GRYMES . LONDON , Printed by Wil● Loutes for Andrew K●●●be dwelling by St : Margarets hill in long Southw●cks ▪ 1636. A GOOD AND necessary Booke for curing diseases , and hurtes in Horses : gathered and written for the good of any that will practise , there being nothing contained therein , but what is of my owne experience and practice , and whereof I have had good proffe . And first for diseases in the head of a Horse . HEADACHE , which sometime commeth of collerick humours bred in the braine , or of some extreme heate , or by some stroke , or such like , the signe of all such infirmities . The Horse will bee heavie , hang downe his head , and his eyes will be swolne dim and waterish . Remedies for the same . Squise the iuyce of ground-Ivie into his nose thriles it is good , or burn the blades of Garlick and Frankensence in a Chafindish , and hold the horse nose over it that the smoke may goe into the same , this will purge his head marveilously , and doe this so often as yee shall thinke needfull , or let him blood in the pallate of his mouth if the signe be not there , or neesing powder and pepper brayed together and blowne into his nose with a quill is also very good . For watering of a Horses eyes , Which may come to a young Horse by eating over-dry and hard meats . The remedies . Let him blood on his temple vaine , or on the vaine under his eye , or on the necke which aswageth the humours of the whole body , and if it have continued long , then wash it with the iuyce of planteine , but if it come of a stroke , then make a cake or a ball of pimpernell and swines dung , dry it in an oven ●ill it will bee powder , and put of that powder in the horse eye , for ●he hawe , or as it is commonly ●alled the hoakes , I need not write , very man almost can cure the same . For a Peable in a Horse eye . Take Tuty a Pothecary hath it bray it and blow it into he ●horse eye , this T●ty 〈…〉 stone and if you cannot have it , then take white copperous and use it in the same manner . For the Lampas . Sometimes I use to draw out the Lampas with a crochet or crooked Iron made red hot that it doth not bleed after , and then with a lance● lets it bleed , and to heale the sore againe take a little honie , a little peper , temper them with a quantitie of vinegar , boyle them together a little space on the fire , and therewith annoint the sore three or four dayes together , or to let him blood with a fleame or a knifes point on both sides of his mouth , but beware lest yee cut the veine which comes right downe the pallate of his mouth , for so hee may bleed to death , and if ye feare he shall bleed too much , give him a little malte to eate very small ground . There is a malady in a Horse mouth that will hinder him to eate his meate . There bee little small or round swellings in the mouth and lips of a horse , which will make him let his meate fall out of his mouth as though hee had the Lampas , clip them away with a paire of Cissers , and rub the places with a little salt . A malady in a Horse belly much like the botts , I call it Tronches , ye may know the evill by these tokens , he will ye downe often , and offer to welter or tumble , hee will offer to gnaw and bite at his sides ; he will strike ahis belly with his hinder feete , and his sides will flacke and beate sore , and in a short time it will pierce thorow his maw , then hee shall bee in great danger to die , but to helpe him at the first . Take out the guts of a young Pullet , make your horse head bee holden up and put them into his throte while they bee warme , and make him swallow them downe ; doe thus three mornings together , and let him neither eate nor drinke after for the space of foure or five houres . Or take a peck of Rie , steepe it in water a day and a night , then take it forth and lay it on a dry earthen floore as much as yee can from the winde , and let it come or burgion there as malt , then dry it in an oven or on a Kilne , and when it is dry give thereof to your horse two handfulls for his first meale in a morning and thus doe five or sixe mornings one after another . Helpes for the sinewes if they bee either pricked or cut asunder . If a sinew be pricked , take these hot things , meat , oyle , swines grace , honie , of each alike , putting thereto powder of Vares , make a plaister of all together , and lay it to the sinew , dresse it so every day till it be whole , and if the flesh be piersed or cut , th●● boyle beane meale and barly me●●e in wine , with a quantity of honie , till it be plaister thick and lay that on the sore . Another yet for the same , which takes away all aking of sinewes brused or pricked . Take crops of walwort mallow leaves , of each two handfull , of lily roots a handfull , stampe them well altogether , and boyle them on the fire in a quantity of hony till they bee thick like a plaister , and lay to the sore twice on the day reasonable hot . But if a sinew be cut overtwart , so as it is not likely to grow together againe , then take groundwormes , the greater the better , stamp them with a little hony , then warme it a little in a pan , and with a cloth bind it to the cutting every day , or every second day once , till it be whole , and let not the sinews that are pricked or cut , be wet with any thing but the medicines , if yee can avoid it . Of the enchafing of a Horse neck , or other place of him , which may come by heat of blood after great travell , which by rubbing against a wall , or a tree will cause scabs rise in his neck , among the haire , sometime on the saddle place , to helpe this . Take unquenched Lime a quantity , such like of beanes ashes , or of beane straw , then take old pisse , set it on the fire till it boyle , and skime it cleane , and while it is hot , put into it your lime and ashes , mingle them well together , let them stand so , till the next day , then take the cleare into another vessell , and every day once , wash the malady with a quantity thereof made hot . When an horse halteth to know whether the harme be in the shoulder , knee , or in his foot , and to helpe him . If the harme bee in his foot , hee will forbeare to tread straight , but even upon the point of his foot , and he will beare it farre from him , and make semblance as though hee would fall often , he will make like signes , and if the grievance be either in his knee or shoulder , then ' its doubtfull to be incurable , unlesse it come by a stroke or a fall , yee may use softning oyntments , but they will doe no great good . Some will feare them where they thinke the disease to be , which is contrary to nature , for that the disease commeth of drinesse : But if it happen in the shoulder by reason of some stroke or fall , or bruising otherwise : then make a bathe for it on this manner following : Take of Ribwort , some call it ribgrasse , 5. or 6. handfull , of Bay-leaves , Peny-riall , Hysope , Crowfoot , Oke-leaves , and red Fenel , of every one a handful , boile all these hearbs in faire water a good space , and twice in a day wash the malady with a pint of this water made hot for the space of five or six dayes together , and afterward anoint and rub well into it this subsequent unction , which is made in manner as here is set downe , ten handfull of the leaves of Pelitory , Bay-leaves , and oke-leaves , of either five handfull , of Sage-leaves foure handfull , stamp all these hearbs very small , boile them then a good space , and with a soft fire , in a gallon of butter , and a quart of neat-oyle : then straine all thorow a canvas bag or cloth , and keepe it then as ye can conveniently , either in a box , or whatsoever , and if ye have of this oyntment in store , yee need never to use Oyle de bay , Nerve-oyle , nor any other that can bee named . And if a horse foot bee hurt with a stub , or pricked with a naile in shooing , then search it well with thy instrument for that purpose , then put a little tallow , or rather Turpentine in the hole , cover it with his owne dung , and set on a shoo , but so as ye may take it off againe at your pleasure , to dresse the foot as need shall require . And if a horse halt through tendernesse of his hoofe , or breaking away thereof , thus hee may be holpen , and his hoofe made to grow againe . Take 2. ounces of Roson , as much of sheepes tallow , halfe an ounce of frankensence , and halfe an ounce of virgin wax , halfe an ounce of swines greace , or more or lesse of every one as yee shall thinke good , melt them altogether and keepe it for thine use , and when thou shalt use any thereof heat it , or turpentine and swines greace boild together is very good for this purpose , the salve must bee rubbed on his foot under and above , especially at the top of his hoofe under the haire these are excellent remedies for this matter . For Windgales . Every man knowes of what fashion they bee , and they are commonly on good horses leggs , rather than on bad ones , and worse to sight then otherwise : but to cure them yee shall take a quantitie of vinegar , a pottle , or as you please , if so much , then must ye have thereto two pound of armement , halfe a pound of galles , and halfe a pound of moleine leaves , stampe them , or bray them small , and temper them altogether with the vineger , put all in an earthen pot , stop it well and close , and with the same liquor wash the windgales every day five or six times , for the space of three or foure daies together ; that done , lap his legge above and beneath the gales , then chafe or rub them with your hand , which will make them rise full , that yee may see them the better , then strike your fleame into them as deep as ye dare for piercing the sinewes , thrust the matter well out of them with your finger , and have ready a hot Iron blunt at the point , and therwith seare the holes which yee make , and every day after wash them with the liquor aforesaid , and it will soon be whole . For the Stranglion : Take the barke of an Elme tree which growes upon some water banke , if you can get such , take away the outside thereof as Tanners clense their barke , chop it into smal pieces , put it then into an earthen pot with well-water , let it stand so 2. or 3. daies , in which time much of the water will be sunke into the barke , fill up the pot then again with water , there will be two parts of barke , and the third part water , or rather 3. parts barke and the fourth water : boile these well together the space of halfe an houre , which done set it from the fire and let it coole , then straine it thorow a cloth and looke how much liquor remaines , put thereto so much of swines greace , heat them then a little on the fire that they may be well blended , and every day powre a gille of this same into his nose-thriles till a gallon of liquor be spent , when yee doe it cause your horse head to bee holden up , or take 8. or 10 handfuls of walwort , stamp it very smal , then menge it with butter cleane clarified , you must have a pottle of butter , put all in a vessell or pot , and let it stand so the space of 6 or 7. dayes , then set it on a softe fier and boile it , putting therein a pint or a quart of wine , and let it boyle the space of a quarter of an hower , then streeme it through a canvas bagg or cloath , and every day put some of this licour into his nose-thriles till all be spent . Or make 10. or 12. balles of May butter and Radish rootes well stamped together , and make him swallow 2 or three of those balles every day , and if ye wet them a little in honie they shall be the better , cause his head to be holden or tied up , that they may goe downe his throate . Costifenes how it may be engendred and to helpe its . It may come with eating overmuch drie meates , or for want of water in convenient times , or of cold taken after travell . The horse that is so will forbeare his meate , he will thrust out his head and hang it far from him , and his bellie will be stiffe and hard . To helpe him hereof , take the rootes of Walwort or rather the out side or rinds of the rootes , and of the rinds of the midle pith of Elder , of each of these a handfull , boile them in three pints of water till one pint be wasted , then strein it thorow a cloath , make his head be bound or holden up , and power the Liquor into him milke warme , then cover him very warme with cloathes , and within an hower or two , he will donge and so after that , more and more . Or stampe onions and butter together , and make pellits thereof , so long as a mans finger , put three or foure of them in at the horse fundament , then walke him or ride him forth the space of an houre or two after , & this wil helpe him without faile . If a horse may not pisse well . Take the roote of gladine that beares the yeolow flower , of walwort crops , of egremony , of chervel of each a handful , boile thē in water , streine it thorow a cloath , give him a quart therof at once milke warme ride him in the fields a good trot the space of halfe an houre , set him up in the stable , cover him warme , & a while after he will stale , cause him to be rubbed well under the bellie with a wispe , especially about the Share , & within a day after let him blood on the great vaine of his thigh . For to helpe the Ring-bone . Take eysel , armement , & a quantitie of verdgrece boile them in a little swines greece , rub this well , and often , in the disease . Or take an ounce of vertigrece and an ounce of frankensence a quantitie of bores grece , make a plaister , and lay it on the ring-bone , but if you launce the skinne a little it is better , not deepe for feare of hurting sinewes . For the Malanders . Rub them with honie , take a shive of cheese tost it well at the fier , and bind it to the soare as hot as ye thinke he is able to endure it , Or rub them with a wispe , or a hard cloath till the blood come , annoint them then with a little fat bacon , then lay on powder of Brimstone , and hold a hot iron to it so neare as conveniently you can to make it cleave on , that done , have a plaister readie to tie about the sore compounded of a quantitie of garlike , henes donge , the gall of a swine if ye can get it , and musterd , and new this plaster as ye see it to be needfull . For craches , or as some call them scratches . Clip away the haire as neare as ye can , then stampe hens donge and goose donge together , with a quantitie of May butter make it hot , and so lap it on the sore , or mingle lime , honie , and salt together & lay them hot on the disease . For the Paines , and how to cure them . Take a sponefull or two of honie a quantitie of soote of a chimnie , a handfull of nettles , in winter the rootes , stampe them altogether , make plaisters thereof and lay them hot on the sore do so every day , or binde unto it copost of a man , immediately as he hath left it at the stoole Or take a sponefull of utrament powdered 2 yolkes of eges , 2 whole leekes or more or lesse of these as neede requireth , stampe thē altogether with a quantitie of swins grese & honie , & lay them to the malady , & when ye se it begin to heale anoint it with sheepes tallow . For a disease called chawdpisse which is hot pisse a burning or scalding heat of his water which when he staleth will be red , almost like blood . To helpe him , make him drinke every day for the space of 4 or 6 dayes , a gallon of whey in a darke place and if he be loath to take it , let him be kept from other water or liquor till he be very desirous of drinke . Or take 6 handfulls of pentafilon , some cal it five leased grasse wash it cleane , stamp it small , put it in a pot with a pottle of well water cover it close and let it stand so a day and a night , the next day set it on the fier make it boyle till the one halfe or more be wasted then streine it thorow a cloath , and either let him drinke this liquor , or power it into him with a horne three or foure mornings , and it will helpe him . How to heale a Curbe First clip the heare cleane away , then garse the place with a rasour or sharpe knife , but not too deepe for feare of cutting the sinewes , and cut it even downe the leg then stroke the blood out with your hand or with a small rod , that don , rub it every day with a little sope & salt or annoint it with honie wormewood and swines grece mingled , and do this twise on a day . For the Glanders . Take 3 or 4 penny worth of oyle debaie , asmuch of popilion , three halfe pennie worth of oyle olive or , more or lesse of all these as neede is , boile them altogether a while on the fier and therewith annoint the soare . Or take Leckes and sheepe snet boile them together and make meanes to binde them to the soare with a cloth . For a Tanite . Shave the haire away with a raisour till blood spring out , take then a cocke or other pullet cleave him right by the backe not cleane thorough into two peeces , and while he is warme , binde him to the horse leg guts and all , let him remaine so two dayes and two nights , and when ye take him away , wash the place with warme water , and when the leg is drye , then lay on it a plaister made of bacō & wheate flower and let that lye on two dayes , or winde his leg with asmal corde and it will make the veine rise full under his fetlocke . Let him blood there , strike not your sleame too deepe for hurting the sinewes , and when it hath bled well binde unto it the white of an egg . For the Botts . Take asmuch blacke sope as a walnut or as a good crabe a sponefull of the powder of sencreke , a sponefull of the blacke ermnies a quantiti of brimstone , and a little salt , mingle all these in ale and give him to drinke , and thereupon ride him forth a quarter of an hower , and let him not drinke after till night , or nor till next morning if ye give him this medicine late on the day . For a horse that is broken winded . Let him blood in the nose with an awle if the signe be not ther , then take a penny worth of long peper , asmuch of graines of Mace as much of round peper asmuch , mingle all these in a pint of red wine and so much of old ale give him this to drinke foure mornings , let him have nooe other drinke till mid day then give him a gallon of water lewe warme , and a handfull or two of ground Malte pu● therein , wrap his legs those dayes up to his bodie , and cover him warme , and maost his hay with water for these foure dayes . If a Horse be gawled or hurt on his backe with a Saddle . Wash the soare well with old pisse , then strow upon on it brayed rosen , and when you see it begin to heale , make a plaister with honie , flower and an egge , & lay that upon it , or the powder of honie and lime burned together , will cure that or any other sore . A good remedy for the scab . Wash the horse with old pisse or Lie , then take a quantitie of quicke-silver , Brimstone , spanish , soape , vertigrece , and swines grece , boyle altogether , and rub them all over his bodie , rub hard and chafe the salve into his skin , If a horse be hurt or brused so as he pisseth blood . Seeth Barlie in the Iuse of Comfrey , give him the barlie to eate , and the Iuse to drinke . For a horse that is surbayte . Take virgin wax , Rosen , pich , and sheepes tallow , boyle them and make plasters , and them about the foote or feete that are surbaite . To take dead flesh out of a wound or any sore . Put compost or excrementes of a man into an earthen pot , dry it in a hot oven till it will powder , lay thereof in the sore , then mingle an eg with salt , and lay that on the sore with a cloath or flax , and wash it every day with pisse , or boile vertegreece and sheepes tallow together , it will doe the same , or honie and lime burnt together , the powder thereof is good , for it will both eat away the dead flesh , and heale the sore , but at every dressing , you must wash the wound with pisse . For a splint . Take a great onion , make it hollow , put into it a quantitie of lime vertigreece , and lavander seedes , then rost it till it be soft , launce the splint , lay the same to it warme , and and it will cure it . If a horse yard or cods be hurt with a stroake , so that they swell . Take two or three handfulls of smallage , or more if you list , stampe it in a morter or other things , wring out the Iuice into some vessell , get as much red wine lies if it be possible , else of other wine , mingle them well together , and there withall wash his yard & cods three or foure times a day it is excellent for that purpose . Here is an end of Cures , and medicines , I could and might have set downe many more medicines , but these already set downe have I found best in use , and they will not faile . And here followes partie observations : first to make a horse quicke on the spurre that is dull . PEarce his skin a little on either side , and with an auntler raise the skin from the flesh , and put in either hole a little burnt salt , which will make the places rankle , keepe him so three or foure dayes that he be not riden , then set a man or Lad on him that may spur him right in those places which are sore , and when he comes in , wash the places with pisse , salt , and nettle roots boyled together , then annoint the places with a little honie it will heale them , and make the horse grow , and after this , he will answer the spur better for ever . To make a white place in a horse head , or any where . Take a tile-stone burne it , and bray it to powder , then take lilie rootes , daysie rootes , and the rootes of white bryer , of every one alike much dry them , and make them into powder , then shave the place you would have white till the blood be redie to follow , then rub it soare with all the powders blended together , get two or three mold warpes boile them a great space in water , and put into it when it hath boiled a good while , a quantitie of honie and a quantitie of honie sokle flowers if ye can get them , wash it thus 3 or 4. dayes , keepe the wind from it asmuch as you can , and it will grow white , and so continue for ever . To cause a Horse that he shall not ney . Where or whensoever you would keepe your horse from neying tye but a little wollen lyst about the middest of his tongue . For the yeolowes . First let him blood on the necke then take one halfe penny worth of long peper , asmuch of bayes , asmuch anneseedes , of fenecreke , of graines of lichorish , of every one , one halfe penny worth , of safron a penny worth , and if you take a quantitie of goose donge and streine it , and put the iuice thereof in your medicine it will be the better , and two spoonefulls of the rootes of Elen a campana dried and made into powder , or you may take more or lesse of all these things , as the disease shall seeme to be increased , ( or increasing ) This midicine should have beene written in the former part of the booke , but that I had forgotten it . Here is also an excellent salve to cure any wound in a horse or in a man , as Iverily suppose . et sic fit . Take of sheeps tallow two pound of rosin three pound , of that rosin which is like frankinsence halfe a pound , of bees wax halfe a pound , of turpentine a quarter of a pound , melt all these together , and when they are melten put therein an ounce of vertigrece smal powdered , but if ye put in your turpentine while it is hot , new taken from th● fier , it is not amisse , stir or mingl● them all well with a sticke , the power all into a basin or panne w● or rensed with water , and when 〈◊〉 is cold you may take it out in a tak● or make it into what fashion y●● will , it is an excellent salve , for 〈◊〉 both draweth , clenseth , and healeth any wound in a horse , so would 〈…〉 doe in a man as I verily suppose . FINIS . Imprimatur Sa : Baker .