diagram of the veins of a horse I B The 2 temple v The 2 eye. v The 2 forehead. v The 2 pallet. v The 2 neck. ve The 2 plate. ve The 2 fore shank. ve The 2 side. ve The shank. ve The houfe. v The haunch. ve The tail. ve diagram of a farrier's tools THE English Farrier, OR, Countrey-mans Treasure. Showing approved Remedies to cure all Diseases, Hurts, Maims, Maladies, and Griefs in Horses: and how to know the several Diseases that breed in them; with a description of every Vein; how, and when to let them blood, according to the nature of their Diseases. With directions to know the several Ages of them. Faithfully set forth according to Art and approved experiment, for the benefit of Gentlemen, Farmers, Inholders, Husbandmen, and generally for all. depiction of the farrier's profession At London printed by John Beale 16●● The Contents. Chap. 1. How and when a horse should be let blood, & by what sign a man may know whether it be needful or no. Chap. 2. In how many Veins a horse may be let blood, with a description of the several Veins. Chap. 3. Directions to know when to let a Horse blood, and in what Vein, and for what disease, grief, or cause, and how to know the grief or disease. Chap. 4. How to know the Age of a Horse. Chap. 5. Things necessary to be known by every Farrier. Chap. 6. To know the several Diseases that grow in Horses and in what parts they grow, and upon what causes. Chap. 7. How to judge of the sicknesses and impediments in a horse by his Dung or Ordure. Chap. 8. How to judge of the sicknesses or impediments in a Horse by his Stolen or Urine. Chap. 9 A description of the number, qualities, and measure of the Sinews of a Horse. Chap. 10. Of the three powers or virtues whereby as well the body of a Horse as every other beast is governed. Chap. 11. Of the number and situation of bones that be in a Horse's body. Chap. 12. In what points the art of shooing doth consist, and of hoofs and of the diverse kinds thereof. Chap. 13. Of paring and shooing the perfect hoove and forefeet, and how to make the shoes and nails. Chap. 14. Of paring and shooing the hinder feet. Chap. 15. How to keep the hoove of a horse moist in the Stable, and the Receipt of the ointment. Chap. 16. Approved Remedies for curing all kinds of Diseases, Hurts, Maims, Maladies or Griefs, in Horses. THE English Farrier, OR Countrey-mans Treasure. Chap. 1. How, and when a horse should be let blood, and by what sign a man may know whether it be needful or no. FIrst, to preserve health, it is good to let him blood four times a year First, in the Sprng about the beginnng of May, because the blood beginneth to increase: Secondly, in September, because the blood being then inflamed inequally, may evaporate or break out: Thirdly, about the midst of December, to let out the gross and knotty blood: Fourthly, about the midst of March. But I would not wish you to let a horse blood but once a year, & that in the beginning of May, within a fortnight after his putting to grass; for than you shall let out the gross and old blood, and the new will come in his place: Except it be upon great need, I would wish you not to let him blood at all: for oft letting blood causeth debility in the horse, it hindereth the sight, and maketh the blood resort inwardly, which cloyeth the heart and intrals, and leaveth the outward parts destitute. Chap. 2. In how many Veins a horse may be let blood, with a description of the several Veins. IN the two Temple Veins, which be the first and principal Veins in the head. In the two Eye veins, which are easy to find in the face of the horse, somewhat beneath his eyes In the two Pallet veins in the Mouth. In the two Neck veins. In the two Plate veins which are in the breast. In the two Forehead veins. In the two Fore-shanke veins. In the two Fore veins before. In the two Side veins, which may be called the Shank veins. In the Taile-veine. In the Hanch-veine. In the Hoofe-veine. In the two Fore shank veins behind. So that an horse may be let blood in 13 veins: All which, are easy enough to know, because every one lieth in a little Gutter, which you shall find by feeling with your finger. Chap. 3. 〈◊〉 to know when to let a horse blood, and 〈◊〉 what Vein, and for what disease, grief, or 〈◊〉, and how to know the grief or disease. diagram of the veins of a horse I B The 2 temple v The 2 eye. v The 2 forehead. v The 2 pallet. v The 2 neck. ve The 2 plate. ve The 2 fore shank. ve The 2 side. ve The shank. ve The houfe. v The haunch. ve The tail. ve If his eyes be waterish, or bloodshotten or grieved with Pin or web, or haw, than it is good to let him blood in the Eye vein, with a phlegm. If he have any weariness or heaviness of body, or be diseased in the throat with the stranglings or Quinasie, or swelling of the Arteries either within or without, than it is good to let him blood in the veins in the mouth with a Cornet. If he be vexed with an Ague, or with any other disease universal hurting his Body, then let him blood in the Necke-veine● If his grief be in the Lungs Liver, or any other inward part: then let him blood in the breast veins, which we call (before) the Plate veins. If he be grieved in the shoulders, then let him blood in the foreféetes veins above the knee with a lance, and that very warily: for that place is full of Sinews. If he be grieved in the joints, then let him blood in the Shackle-veines, and that very warily: for that place is full of Sinews also. If he be foiled in the fore-feets with Foundering, or otherwise, then let him blood in the two veins (make way first with your drawer, to come to your veins) in the Forefeet. If he be diseased in the Kidneys or Reins, Back or Belly then let him blood in the Flank-veines. If he have any grief in his hips, then let him blood in the tail vain, or hoof vein. If his hinder Legs be grieved, or joints, or Feet: then let him blood on the Shackle-Veins, and on the two veins behind on the hinder Feet, Chap. 4. How to know the age of a Horse. A Horse hath forty teeth: the thirtieth month after his foaling he looseth two above and two beneath; in the fourth year, he looseth two above and two beneath: when he is five, he casteth all the rest both above & beneath. Those that come first above, are hollow: when he is six, his hollow teeth are filled up: and in the seventh all the rest are filled up: than you may no longer judge of his age by his teeth. Chap. 5. Things necessary to be known by every Farrier. AS first to know into what disease a horse is inclinable. Secondly what be the causes of every disease in particuiar, Thirdly how and by what w●yes and means these diseases do grow. Fourthly the signs how to know and distinguish them, Fifthly and lasty the means and mannr how to cure them, Chap. 6. To know the several diseases that grow in horses, and in what parts they grow, and upon what causes. Bags, in the weaks of the mouth. Barbs, be two teats growing under the tongue. Bottes, do grow and breed in the Maw & guts. Blisters, on his body, comes through heat & cold. Canker, is in his mouth venomed, & will make his tongue to have cliffs, and scabs in his upper lips underneath, and are full of black a weals or pimples, so that he can hardly eat his meat. Coult-Evill, is by rankness of water and blood: it will cause his belly and Yard to swell. Cloying, is in the hoof of the Feet. Cords, is a stack sinew in the legs before. Curbs, is a swelling sinew behind the hoof. Crotches, is a ruff scuruines about the fetlocks Interfeering, is striking on the joint above the pastorne. Fartion, or Farcie, is a Scab or knobs breaking in diverse places of his body, and cometh chiefly in the Veins. Fever, is a sickness taken with cold, and will cause him to shake. Thistula, is an old rotten Sore in the body. Foundering, is taken in the body, and feet also. Fraying, is taken in the body, feet, and legs, which is a stiffness coming only with cold. Prounce or Pimples, is in the pallet of his mouth, Galling, or other hurt: and come especially by eating of frozen grass, or dust. Gigges or Flapes, are Pimples or Teats in the inside of the mouth. Glanders, are Kernels under his jaws: and when they are ripe, they will run at his Nose, and so break out. Gorge, is a swelling of blood on the legs Gravelling, is taken in the Feet Web in the Eye, or the Haw, which is a Gristle growing on the Feime which scoureth the Eye Hid bound, is when the skin cleaveth to the flesh and the Ribs. Hoofe-bound, is in the pinching of the hoof. Itch in the Tail, is by excess of blood. Lampas, is the flesh in the mouth nigh the upper Teeth. Mange, is 〈…〉 Mallender, is a 〈…〉 the knees. Molt-long, is the 〈◊〉 of a 〈◊〉- hoof. Mourning of the Chine, is a Wasting from the back or 〈…〉 Navel-galled, is a 〈…〉 against the Navel, or as 〈…〉 Pains is a 〈◊〉 above 〈…〉, or foot-lock. Poule-evill, is on the 〈◊〉 of the Neck: and breedeth by stripes. Pin or web, which covereth the beard of the Eye. Rheum, is taken by cold, & so his Teeth will wax lose, & seem long, & then he cannot eat his meat, but it will lie in lumps, about his jaws. Ring-bone, is a hard gristle about the Hoof. Quinnasie, is soreness in the Throat. Selander, is a Scab on the Hams on the hinder legs. Shackle-galled, is on the Pastorne. Spavin, is on the joint in the hooves behind. Splent, is a splend sinew above the fetterlocks. Staggers, is a dizziness in the head, breeding of cold and of the Yellows. Stranglings, is a swelling in the Throat. Stone, in a horse. Surbating, is under the Soles of the Feet on the further side. Vives, is a certain Curnell under the ear, or a Canker in the Mouth or Throat. Wind-gals, are Bladders about the fetterlocks. Yellow, is a kind of jaundice, and will cause the Eyes to look yellow, and other parts of the body also. Chap. 7. How to judge of the sicknesses and impedimets in a horse, by his dung or ordure. I have found for the most part the dung or ordure is correspondent to the food the ho●se eateth especially for the colour, for if he run at grass, or be ●…led in the Stable, th●… will his dung be evermore green, howbeit of a more bright and sometimes again of a more dark colour, and freer from darkness is ever best, and doth make appearance of the more sanity and health of the beast, as also that is th' reby the less subject to constivenesse, and therefore in better state of body. But if his ordure be very bright and laxative, it is an infallible sign that he hath eaten some thing that is against nature; as a Feather or some naughty worm, some Spider or the like unwholesome thing, otherwise he scoureth of some inward co●d which hath formerly lurked in his stomach or body: but if his dung at grass or soil be very hard and costive, which he putteth forth with round and hard trattles, then is it a great sign that he is very hot in his body and inward parts, which may endanger the staners, or else doth show that he hath a surfeit which he got (before his putting forth) through intemperate riding, ●…shing, raw, or evil food, or the like, whereby the horse is in danger to become morfounded, to have the yellows, or jaundice, or a fever; which will otherwise hardly appear in him in its effect until his coming into the Stable, at what time due order must be taken for speedy prevention. But if your horse do feed upon Straw, then will the colour of his dung be yellow and some what hard, long, and well compact, all which be tokens of a healthy and a sound body; but if it be reddish, and exceeding dry, it is a sign of ensuing sickness, by means of a great drought in the body, and so also if it be thine: but if it be blackish, and doth not smell strong, then is it a sign that the horse is in danger of death. But if your horse do feed upon Hay and Oates, and that he be sound in body, then will his Excrements be a brown yellow, moist, and well compact but if the brownesse be converted into redishnesse, you may be then well assured that he hath some distemperature in his body, but when it converteth into blackness, then if prevention be not speedily had, death ensueth: and as touching the smell, that falleth out according to the quantity of the provender you give him for the more provender, the stronger will be the smell of his Ordure, and Pease and Beanes will cause his Ordure to smell stronger than Oats, & bread more than any grain or Pulse; and the more bread and provender you give him, the more perfect and sound shall you keep him in his body. But if his dung be brown and slimy, and shine withal, then be you assured he hath much grease which lyéth in his body, which Physic must fetch away from him, for then also is his blood putrified, corrupted, or inflamed. But if you do find by his Excrements that he voideth undigested stuff, which you may know by the whole corns of Oats, Wheat and other Grain he sendeth forth in his dung, then persuade yourself, that your horse hath lately taken a formal surfeit, which may right easily bring him to his end, if a discreet course be not speedily taken: in a word, if his dung be black and hath little or no smell, then make you no question but that he is in danger of death, which will full soon after follow, if the greater care be not taken to hinder and prevent the same. Chap. 8. How to judge of the sicknesses or impediments in a horse by his Stolen or Urine. IF he shall find his water to be either pale, whitish or yellow not much unlike to the colour of Whey, or fat Amber, or if it be not very clear, but smelleth somewhat strong let the ferrier than be confident the horse is not sick, but sound and healthy, and in perfect state of body; but if his Urine be extreme clear and white, and of the colour of Rock-water, and withal slimy, then hath he a taint in his Kidneys, Reins, or back, or else he inclineth to the stone or else he hath some stoppage in his Kidneys. But if his water be high coloured like to the colour of strong Beer, then is it a token the blood of the horse is inflamed, and that he is subject to a Fever, or to some strong Surfeit: but if it be red and of the colour almost of blood, then is the blood more inflamed, which came of over hard riding, which may prone very dangerous to his life. But if it be of a pale greenish colour thick, and viscous, then certainly his Back is grown weak, and he is in danger of a Consumption of his Steed. But if it be high coloured and nebuled or mixed with small Clouds, with a kind of blackness therein, than this doth demonstrate ensuing sickness and death, if it be not carefully prevented. But if the Nebulosity be dispersed into several parts, and not combined as it were into on Mass or Body; this than argueth, that the malice of the disease beginneth to departed, whereby the Ferrier may have great hope of the health of the Horse. Chap. 9 A description of the number quality and measure of the sinews of a horse. IT behooveth us also to describe unto you the number, quality, and measure of the sinews of a horse. From the ●…id nostrils up to the top of the head, and so down along the back, even to the crupper comes it great cords or tendons, every one xii. foot long. Th●n is there two branches and principal sinews of the brain, containing four foot. Then from the shoulders to the nex● io●…t downward two great sinews or tendons. And from that joint down to the pastorns four great s●newes. Also in the forepart and about his breast, aswell within ●…s without, are x. sinews, and as many in his hinder parts. Then from the reynes of his back unto his stones are four, so that in his whole body he hath in all four and thirty apparent sinews. Chap. 10. Of the three powers or virtues whereby as well the body of a horse as every other beast is governed. THe powers and virtues whereby the body of every beast is governed, are in number three, that is to say, the power Animal, the power Vital, and the power Natural. The power Animal, is a virtue incident to the brain, which through the sinews c●mming like conduit pipes from the brain, distributeth feeling and moving to all the parts of the body. The power Vital is a virtue belonging to the heart, which giveth life and spirit to all the body; and to every part thereof, by means of the arters, which also like conduit pipes do proceed from the heart, the chief fountain of natural heat. The power Natural, is a virtue properly appertaining to the liver, which giveth nutriment unto all the body, and to every part thereof, by means of the veins, which like wise proceed from the liver like conduit pips, carrying the blood from the liver, which is the fountain of blood unto every part of the body. Moreover, the power natural comprehendeth four other virtues, that is to say, the virtue attractive, whereby it draweth sustenance meet to nourish the body, than the virtue retentive whereby it retaineth and keepeth the sustenance received, thirdly, the virtue digestive, whereby it digesteth the same: and finally the virtue expulsive, whereby it expelleth excrements, or superfluities. Thus you see that the three powers before recited, be of no small importance, and therefore the Ferrer had need to have a special regard unto them. For if any of them fail, the beast cannot live. Chap. 11. Of the number and situation of bones that be in a horse's body. Every Horse or Ox, hath in the upper part of his head two bones, and from his forehead unto his nostrils, other two Also two neither jaw bones, and of tooth in all, to the number of xl. that is to say, of jaw tooth, or side teeth, xxiiii of tusks xiii. of fortéeth, otherwise called the shearing tooth xii The joint bones, aswel of the neck as of the back, be in all twenty two. that is to say from the head to the withers, seven. and from thence to the reynes or kidneys. viii. and from thence to the tail, seven, then is there the great broad hinder bone, called the sacred bone, which hath xii. seams or jointures Also in the horses shoulder be two great bone called the spade bones, and from thence to the forcelles or Canell bones, other two bones and from thence to the first joint above the legs, other two and from thence to the knees two called the thigh bones, and from thence to the pasterns, other two called the shank bones, and from thence downward to the hoofs, be in all xuj. little bones. Then there is a great bone in his breast whereunto are fastened xxvi. ribs. And to the Col●…elle behind be two bones, and from the mo●ayrs to the joints other two, and also two towards the ribs. From the bending of the hough unto the leg, are two small bons and from the leg to the two feciles of the leg, other two little bones and from the pastorns to the hoove sixteen little bones. The sum of all the bones, is one hundrad threescore and ten. Chap. 12. In what points the art of shooing doth consist, and of hoofs and of diverse kinds thereof. THe Art of shooing consisteth in these points, that is to say, in paring the hoove well, in making the shoe of good stuff, in well fashoning the web thereof, and well piercing the same, in fitting the shoe unto the horse's foot, in making nails of good stuff and fashoning of the same, and finally, in well driving of the said nails, and clenching of the same. But sith neither paring nor shooing is no absolute thing of itself, but hath respect unto the foot, or hoove, (for the shoe is to be fitted to the foot, and not the foot to the shoe) and that there be diverse kinds of hoofs both good and bad, requiring great diversity as well of paring as shooing. Of hoofs some be perfect and some be voperfect The perfect Hoove is that which is round, smooth and short, so as the Horse may tread more on the Toe than on the Heel, and also right, and somewhat hollow within, but not over hollow, having a narrow frush, and broad Heels. The unperfect Hoove. is that which lacketh any of these properties beforesaid, belonging unto a perfect Hoove. For as touching the first point mark. If the Hoove be not round but broad, and spreading out of the sides or quarters, that horse for the most part hath narrow héels, & in continuance of time will be flat footed which is a weak foot, and will not carry a shoe long, nor travel far, but soon surdate, and by treading more on his heels, than on his toes, will go low on his pastorns and such feet through their weakness be much subject to false quarters, and to gravelling. Secondly, if the hoove be not smooth, but rugged, and full of circles, like Rams horns, than it is not only unseemly to the eye, but also it is a sign that the foot is in no good temper, but to hot and dry, and thereby perhaps maketh the hoove to be brittle. Thirdly, if it be long, than it will cause the horse to tread all upon 〈◊〉 heels, and to go low on his pasterns and thereby to breed windgalls. Fourthly, if ●…e hoove be not right, but crooked, that is to say, broad without, and narrow within, whereby the horse is splay footed, than it will cause the horse to tread more inward, than outward, and to go so close with his joints together, as he cannot well travel without interfering, or perhaps striketh one Leg so hard agains another, as he becometh lame. But if he be broad within and narrow without, that is not so hurtful. Notwithstanding, it will cause him to graveil sooner on the outside than on the inside, Fiftly, if the hoove be flat and not hollow within, than it breedeth such inconveniences, as are before declared in the first unperfect hoove. And again if it be over hollow, than it will dry the faster, and cause the horse to be hoovebound. For the over hollow hoove is a straight narrow hoove, and groweth upright, whereby though the Horse treadeth upright, and not on his heels, yet such kind of hoous will dry over fast, unless they be continually stopped, and cause the horse to be hooubound, which lameth them, making them to halt. Sixtly, if the truth be broad, than the heels be weak, and so soft as you may almost bend them together and then the horse will never tread boldly on the stones or hard ground. Seaventhly, & lastly, if the heels be narrow, the be tender & the horse will grow to be hooubound. Chap. 13. Of paring and shooing the perfect hoove and forefeet, and how to make the shoes and nails. FIrst pair the feat of the shoe, so even and plain as may be, to the intent that the shoe may sit close and not bear in one place more than in an other and take more of the toe, than of the heel, to the intent that the heels be higher than the toe, because all the weight of the horses, fore-body lieth upon the quarters and heels of the forefeet. And therefore those parts should be most maintained, and taken off with the butter as little as may be. For the paring of the héels, being naturally thinner, and more tender than the toe, doth greatly weaken them: but the toe being naturally thick and hard, would be pared so thin almost as the edge of a knife. But in paring of the hinder feet, a clean contrary order is to be observed. Then make your shoe of spruce or spanish Iron, with a broad web, fitting it to the foot, and let the spongs be thicker, and more substantial than any other part; of the shoe, yea, and also somewhat broad, so as the quarters on both sides may disbord, that is to say, appear without the hoove a straw's breadth, to guard the coffin, which is the strength of the hoove, and only beareth the shoe, and when you come to the piercing thereof, spear not to pierce it from the quarter to the hard toe, but not backwards toward the heel and pierce it so as the holes may be wider on the outside than on the inside, and that the circle of the piercing may be more distant from the edge of the toe, then from the edge of the quarter, whereas it beginneth, because the hoove is thicker forward then backward, and therefore more hold to be taken. And as touching the nails than make them also of the same Iron beforesaid, the heads whereof would be square and not fully so broad beneath as is above, but answerable to the piercing holes, as the head of the nails may enter in and fill the same, appearing above the shoe no more than the breadth of the back of a knife, so shall they stand fast without shogging, and endure longer, and to that end the stamp that first maketh the holes, and the perschill that pierceth them, and also the necks of the nails, would be of one square fashion and bigness, that is to say, great above and small beneath, which our common Smiths do litregard, for when they pierce a shoe, they make the holes as wide on the inside, as on the outside, and their nails with so great a shouldering by drying them over hard upon the nail tool, as the heads or rather necks of the said nails, can not enter into the holes, for to say the truth, a good nail would have no shouldering at all, but be made with a plain and square neck, so as it may justly fit and fill the piercing hole of the shoe. For otherwise the head of the nail standing high, and the neck thereof being weak, either it breaketh off or else bendeth upon every light occasion, so as the shoe thereby standeth lose from the hoove and is quickly lost. Moreover, the thankes of the nails would be somewhat flat, and the points sharp without hollowness or flaw, and stiffer towards the head above, than beneath. And when you drive, drive at the first with strokes and with a light hammer, until the nail be somewhat entered, and in shooing fine horses it shall not be amiss to grease the points of the nail with a little soft grease●, that the nails may enter the more easily, and drive the two Talon nails first. Then look whether the shoe standeth right or not, which you shall perceive in beholding the Frush, for if the spongs on both sides, be equally distant from the Frush, than it standeth right, if not then amend it and set the shoe right, and standing right, drive in another nail, that done, let the horse set down his foot again, and look round about it to see whether it fitteth the horses foot in all places, and whether the horse teradeth even and just on it or not. And if you see that the shoe doth not furnish every part equally, but perhaps appeareth more of one side than of another. Then make the Horses other foot to be lifted up, to the intent he may stand the more steadyly upon that foot, and so standing, strike him on the hoove with your hammer on that side that the shoe is scant, and that shall make the shoe to come that way. The shoe then standing strait and just, drive in the rest of all the nails to the number of eight, that is to say, four on the on side, and four on another, so as the points of the nails may seem to stand in the out side the hoove even and just one by another; as it were in a Cyrenler line, and not out of order, like the teeth of a saw whereof one is bend one way and clinch them so as the clinches may be hidden in the hoove, which by cutting the Hoove with the point of a knife, a little beneath the appearing of the nail you may easily do. That done with a ●ape, pair the hoove round, so as the edge of the shoe may be seen round about. Chap. 14. Of paring and shooing the hinder feet. FOr the paring of the hinder feet, is clean contrary, to the forféete, for the weakest part of the hinder foot is the toe, and therefore in paring the hinder foot, the toe must be always more spared than the heels. Then make the shoe fit for the hoove in such fort as is before said, saving that it would be always strongest towards the toe, and it must be pierced nigher the heel than the toe, because as I have said before, that the toe is always the weakest part of the hinder foot. Also let the out side of the hinder shoe be made with a Calkin, not over high, but let the other sponge be agreeable unto the Calkin, that is to say, as high in a manner as the Calkin, which Calkin is to keep the horse from flyding, But than it may not be sharp pointed, but rather flat and handsomely turned upward. Chap. 15. How to keep the hoove of a horse moist in the stable, and the receipt of the ointment. AS Horses hoous do many times take harm through the negligence or unskilfulness of the Ferrer, in evil paring or shooing the same, even so they take no less harm many times through the negligence of the keeper for lack of stopping, and keeping the foreféete moist, for the hinder feet most commonly are kept to moist, by means that the dung and stolen is suffered to lie continually at their heels. But the forféetes stand continually dry, whereby the horse becometh brittle hooved, yea, and many times hoovebound, which a good keeper will not suffer, but be mindful to sto● them often, either with horse dung, or Cow dung, yea, and also to wash them clean without, with water, and then to anoint them with some good supplying ointment, as this here following prescribeth. Take of Turpentine, of sheep's suet, of each half a pound, of unwroght wax half a quartern, and of Salad oil half a pint. Boil all these together in a pot, stirring them continually until they be throughly mingled together. Then take it from the fire, and let it cool, and being cold, preserve it in the same pot, or else in some other, to the intent that you may have it ready every second day to anoint all the coffins of the Horses Hooves round about, but first wash their hoofs fair and clean and suffer no dirt to remain upon them, then being dried with a cloth anoint them. The siixt Chapter. Approved remedies for the curing of all kinds of diseases, hurts, maims, or malidies, or griefs in Horses. For the Galling of a Horseback. TAke Butter, vinegar and Bay-salt, and melt them together, and lay on the horse back warm: then strew upon it sut, or the powder of a clay wall. Another for the same. Take ob. of turmeric, bruise it, a handful of Bay-salt, and a handful of Sut, with two handfuls of Oatmeal, mingle it with Urine, and make it into a Cake as well as you can, and then upon a hot hearth bake it till it be burnt black, then beat it into powder; and when you have washed your horseback with Lee very hot or Chamber Lee, then strew on the powder: and when the powder is almast gone, dress it as aforesaid. If it be festered, take Yeest, Honey, the white of an Egg,, and sut; mingle them together, and make a plaster thereof, and lay it to the dead flesh: then straw on Verdigreace, and renew it once a day. Another for the same. Take a pottle of Vergiss, two penny worth of green Copris, and boil it to a pint and a half: wash depiction of a man on horseback and search the hole therewith, and fill the hole▪ with Red Lead, 〈◊〉 so let it remain three days untouched, then wash it with the same, and fill it again with Red Lead: and so every other day wash it with that Water, not made so strong of the Copris; and lay thereon Red Lead, this will heal it though it be galled to the body. To heal any canker or sore in a horse. Take of the strongest Beer a pint, put it into a quarter of a pound of Alum: and half a hand full of Sage: Seethe it to the one half, then take out the Sage leaves: this will heal any Canker or Sore in a horse. To heal any cut in a Horse. Take a quarter of a pound of fresh Butter, of tar and black Soap, half so much of each, and a little turpentine: boil them altogether (but the Soap) and as soon as you take it from the fire, put in the Soap and then use it. For a horse wrung in the wales. Take Butter and salt, and boil them together till they are black, then pour it on hot: then take up a flake of Horse dung that is hot, and loy it on the sore back, and so dress him till he be whole. For fretting on the belly which cometh with galling of the foregirt. This cometh with the fore Girt, and it stoppeth the blood which is in the principal veins, called the plate Veins, which do run length ways, take Oil of Bays, and Oil of Balm, two ounces of Pitch, two ounces of tar, one ounce of Rosen: mingle them altogether, and anoint the fore bowels, then take Flax and lay upon it, and sear it with a hot Iron, but take heed it be not too hot, for fear of burning. For Thistulaes'. When you first perceive it to swell, then scald it with Honey and sheep's suet, but scald it very much, this will keep it from breeding. Then take and slit it in the veather end of the sore and put as much Mercury Sublimatum as a Pease, abate it with Salad Oil, laying it on with a feather; after that take verdigreace four penny worth, Vitrial ob. Led three penny worth, beat these together and every day wash the wound with Copris water made with Copris and Elder leaves in Summer, and with the inner green bark in Winter: after washing, take the powder, and put it on the sore, and after it drop on a little Oil. Another for the same. Take the outtermost green shells of Walnuts, and put them in a tub, strowing three or four handful of Bay-salt upon them, some on the bottom, some on the middle, and some on the top, and so keep them all the year: and when you will use them, take a pint of them, and a little bay salt, and half a quarter of a pound of black Soap, with half a spoonful of May butter (and for want thereof, other butter and incorporate them together, and then spread it on the sore: but two hours before you lay it on, anoint the Sore with a little Venice-turpentine. A medicine to kill the thistula clean, cankers, or foulesores Take unguentum Egyptiacum which is made of Honey, a pint, Vinegar half a pint Alum a quarter of a pound, and verdigreace an ounce and half, see the them altogether, till they be thick and a tawny colour; this is called Egyptiacum: And to made it the strongest way, is to put Subls. an ounce make in powder and Arsenic two scruples, and boil it together. This strongest is for thistulaes, Cankers, and foul Soars: and the first may be used in the Mouth, but not that which is made of Sublimatum and Arsenic; for they are poison. A Tent to put into the hollow place of Take of Sublimatum well powdered, one ounce, the midst of well leavened Bread stake baked iiii. or of Nevin fen dams; mingle them together with a little Rose-water, and make Tents thereof▪ and dry them upon a tile, and then take it to use. To make a Lee for the same, or water to kill a Thistula at the bottom. Take Lée, honey Roch Alum, and Mercury, and seethe them together: and apply it to the thistula at the bottom thereof, Another for the same. Also to dry a thistula, take Rew, Wine, Goat's dung, and Beane flower, and seethe 〈◊〉 together, and lay it on, and this will dre it up. To sinck-a Thistula. Take first and sear it with this mark O or such like, and then take Rosen, Sheep's fallow, and brimstone, and boil them together, and lay it on very hot with a Cloth: this will sink it down again. This is good also for a Windgall: take and pick it out (but beweare of Sinews) and then lay it on; but not so hot, but very reasonable: and this will keep it cleave. For a Thistula in the head. Take the juice of house-léeke and dip a lock of Wool in it, and put the lock of Wool in his Eared and bind it fast, use this once a day. Another for the same. If there bea any inflammation in the Ears, or that it groweth to an inpostumation in that place, you shall boil the roots of Mallows in water till they wax tender, then bruise them, and strain out the water clean and being warm give it the Horse to drink. To know the Bottes. When you think that your Horse hath the Boss, look in his mouth: and smell on his breath, for it will stink, and his mouth will be full of slime. To cure the Bottes. Take as much black Soap as a Walnut, as much Brimstone beaten, and a little Garlic, and put it in good Ale, and give it to the Horse blood warm: but for a Mare with foal, then take brimstone, sut, and Garlic, with out soap. Another for the same. Take a handful of new Hen's dung▪ and a quart of good stolen drink, and all to bray it with your hands: than take a good handful of bay Salt, and put two Eggs to it, and bray them together, and give it your horse to drink in a horn. Another for the same. Take a pint of milk, of Saffron, ob of Alum ob. beat them together, and give it him to drink. To kill the worms in the maw. Take the crops of young broom, and of Savin and grunsel, of each a quantity: then crop them small, and give it him with his provender evening & morning let him and not drink for a good space after. If he have the long worms, take milk, brimstone and honey, and give him to drink. For the worms in the Cod. Take the guts of a young Pullet; and cast it into his mouth fasting, and make him to swallow them down: do this three mornings together, but let him not drink nor eat in five hours after. Some use to give him fresh broom in his provender, and salt water to drink. Others do give him of green Willow, or green reed so eat, and in digestion of the meat, he shall cast out the Worms. Another for the same. Take the Garbage of a young hen or Pigeon while it is warm, roll it first in a little Soap, and and after in Bay-salt, and force it down his threat: and it will help him. Probatum. To know when a Horse hath the worms. Take up his upper lip, and you shall see many small blue veins, greater and bigger than the worm veins by a great deal. For a Horse that hath the Truncheons. Let him drink Heunes dung, Mint, Sage, and Rue: and let him blood in the Nostrils▪ or else give him Savin or Sothernewood to drink; and it will cure him. Another for the same. Take ob. of Arment, ob. of Honey, ob. of veniricke, ob. good stolen Ale: mingle them together, and tie up the horse head on high, and give it him to drink with a horn. For Blisters. Take the suyce or ground ivy, with so much Brimstone, a quantity of tar, and so much Alum: put it altogether, and lay it to the sore. For the Bards. If they grow long, they will hinder his feeding: they do use to clip them with a pair of shears, and then wath his Mouth with water and Salt: and that will cure him. For the Staggers. You shall perceive them by beating his head, and he will be as though he were hlind. Take garlic, rue, and bay-salt, and beat them grossly put vinegar into it, & put it into the horses ears, & then wet wool in his medicive, and stop his ears therewith and bind them close, and let it be so 24. hours, and then pull out his tongue and wash it with vinegar, to make him have a good stomach. Another for the same. First take a wisp of wet hay, and burn it under his nose that the smoke may fume into his head, then take half a handful of Salandine, and as much hearbg●…ace, three or four cloves of Garlic, and a little 〈◊〉 Salt, and st●…p them together, and put thereto ●… or five spoonful of vinegar or vergis: then 〈◊〉 it into the horses Ears: and tie the Ears close that no air may come in: let it continue in his Ears a day and a night, and then let him blood. Or else take Rue and Salandine, of each alike, and white Salt, and stamp them together, and put into his ears, and bind them up for two hours. Another for the same. Take oil of bitter Almonds, i oz. di. of Ox gall, two. Dams of black Ellebor stamped, ob of grains of Casterum, of Vinegar, and of verjuice five dams▪ seeth them altogether till the vinegar be consumed, then strain them, and put it into his Ears. For the pain in the head, or stifling. Keep his head warm and let him drink warm water mingled with wheat-meale, or Fennel-seede, and blow it into his Nose with a quill, and some powder of Ellabar, Snéesing powder, mixed together with some pepper: then take a pint of malmsey, the whites and yolks of five new laid Eggs, one head of Garlic bruised, small pepper, Cinnamon and Nutmegs beaten fine, and a quantity of sweet butter: mingle them together, and give it him to drink three days after: but let him not drink in four hours after. For the wanders. Take half a bushel of Barley, and set on the fire in a pan, and put t●…reto running water, and ever as the water wasteth, put in more, so that the Barley be covered with water, and let it seethe till the Barley be broken: then take a little Poke or Sack, and put the Barley therein, and lay the same on the Horse ridge on length from the Main to the Cropper, all hot: and let it lie till it be cold, and there let it lie a night and a day, and put the Horse into a green Yard some xxiiii. hours, and there he will wallow: and then take him in, and he will be whole. For the Yellows. You shall know them by the white of his Eye, which will be yellow, or else by his tongue, which will have yellow veins, or put up his upper Lip, and you shall see veins yellow. Take two razes of Turmeric, and ob. of Saffron and put to it a pint of strong Beer or Ale, and warm it blood-warme, and give it him. Another for the same. Take Turmeric a clove and di and di. a dozen thaines of Saffron, one or two Cloves, and six spoonfuls of vinegar or vergis: and put each in Ear three spoonfuls, and stop his ears with black wool: and then tie them fast seven or eight days. Another for the same. Take long Pepper, grains, turmeric, and Licoris beaten in powder: put them into strong Beer and give it him to drink. For the pains or Crotches, which cometh by heat, and sudden cold upon it, The pains appear above the Hoof: you shall know them by the Hair standing right up, you must take up the shackle vein on both sides, then take the soft Row of a red Herring, and Mustard, and black Soap, and boil these in vinegar and make a P●aster, and lay it to the sore. There is no Vein between the Postern and the Hoof but the Shank Vein, and the Vein which serveth for the Crotches must be taken up on the inside and the outside. Wash it first with warm Urine, then dry it with a Cloth, and c●ippe away a●l the hair's o● the scabby place; then rubbe and chafe it all over, and make fast his feet, and rubbe the p●ace grieved with Butter and tar boiling together upon a Clout tied on a sticks end and ba●…e it well therewith: use this once or twice a day, till it be whole. Butter and honey melted together, is good to anoint an Horse for pains, or Crotches▪ An●ther for the same. T●ke a pound of Hogs grease, i. d. worth of verdigreace two. oz of mustard. di a pound of oil de bay, a quarter of a pound of Naruell, di. a pound of Honey di. a pound of English Wax, i. oz. of Arsenic, two. oz of Red Lead, half a pint of 〈◊〉: boil all these together, and make an Ointment of it: C●ippe the Horse's leg bare, and lay this medicine to it very hot. For Courded legs, or scratches. Take up the sheines beneath the knee, and let him blood as much as you think good, then knit the Vein above and beneath, and anoint the legs with this oil following. Another for the same. Take Frankincense, and Rosen, and fresh grease, and boil them together, and strain it: and keep it to your use. A Drink to raise a Horse, or for a Horse that is sick. Take two pennyworth of Pepper, two penny worth of Saffron, two pennyworth of Annis-seedes two penny worth of turmeric, a pennyworth of long Pepper, two pennyworth of treacle, a pennyworth of Licoris, a good quantity of penny reyall and Archangel: Give him these with the yolks of Eggs in milk to drink, And for Neat Cattles, give these to drink. For a Scurfet Horse. Take a quart of Beer or Ale, two pennyworth of Salad oil, and as much Dragon water, a pennyworth of treacie: make them warm upon the coals and put into it a pennyworth of Horse Spices: and give it him. For a Hidebound Horse. This cometh by overmuch working, ill dyering, and naughty dressing take Fen-creeke, turmeric, Annis seeds, Bays, Licoris, and Cummin beat all these together, and give him one spoonful of all these in Ale or Beer blood warm. this is also good for the cough: this will also keep him from it, If you use to give if him before the disease cometh. Another for the same. Take away some blood with the Flem; then give him some warm meashes morning and evening, and give him Malt sodden in water together, or bran and water, or some wheat sodden with Barley in water and it will help him. For the hoofe-bound. You shall raise the hoof above from the top to the sole in four or five places, that the Water may come out: Some do raise it round with a sharp knife, and along downward, and then rubbe it well with Salt once or twice. For a lose Hoof. Take Tar three spoonful of Rosen, a quarter of a pound of tansy, Rue, of red Mints, of Sothernwood, of each half a handful: beat all them together namorter, and put there to half a pound of butter, i, d. worth of Virgin's wax: then fry them altogether, and bind it to the Hoof for eight days, and it will eure him. For a brittle hoof. If your Horse have a brittle Hoof, it is because it is too hot or too dry; and doth stand a day in the Stable unstopped. Take Oxe-doung and temper it with Vinegar, and bind it warm all over unto the Feet, and under the soles of the Feet, on the next day use him so again; so use it for a week together, and it will help him: use to stop his Feet with Ox or Cow dung, or his own; and let him stand so a month. Or, take the fat of Bacon, and temper it with Turpentine, and anoint his Feet therewith; which is very good. A Medicine for the Cough, or morning in the chine. Keep your Horsemeatlesse over night, then take a a pint and a half of milk, three henads of Garlic p●lled and stamped, boil them to the half: give it to your Horse, and some at his nose, then run a quarter of a mile, then rest him; and after that, run him three times more, every time resting him: then put him into a stable, and keep him very warm, give him no water till ofternoone, then give him good Mesh and so use him with Meshes three days, and give him no water but always warm, for three days. Another for the same. Take Hornehound. Licoris, and Annis seeds, in powder make Balls thereof with fresh Butter and give it your Horse. Another for the same. Take wheat flower, Annis seeds, and Licoris, being stamped in a mortar. Five or six cloves of garlic being bruised: mix all these together, and make a Praister of them, and roll them in balls as big as a Walnut: then pull out his tongue, and cast the balls down his throat three or four of them at a time: and give him two new laid Eggs after them shells and all. For the Glanders. Take swine's grease clean clarified, and as much oil of bay as a Walnut: give it him to drink with fair water, luke warm. Another for the same. Take of Ellecampana, Annis seeds, and Licoris of each i.d. worth, boil them in three pints of strong Ale or Beer, unto two pints or less: then put into it a quarter of a pint of Salad oil, and give it him to drink blood warm Then take Enfordium in a Quill, and blow it up into his nose, and within three days after, take mustard, Vinegar, and Butter, and boil them together: put thereto half an ounce of Pepper, and give it him to drink. Use the one Medicine one week, and the other another; and ride to work him easile. Another far the same. Take a quantity of Annis seeds, Kicoris, and Ellecampana roots; ●ong pepper and Garlic, of each a like, with three Eggs, and some butter, a quantity of malmsey, and some strong Ale mixed together; and make it warm, and so give it him, and keep him warm. Another for the same. Seethe a handful of peeled Earlike in Milk, and put a piece of Butter thereto, and some Ale: and stir them all together, and give it him fasting, and ride him softly a while after, and then set him up: but keep him warm nine days after. For the strangies. Cut him between the jaws, and take out the Kernels and wash the place every day with beer and butter, and stop it up as long as you can, and give him new milk and Garlic to drink, and the juice of the leaves of Birch withal; or in winter, the bark of Birch: also smother him with the fume of Mastic or Frankincense. For the Farsey. Take black Soap, Arsenic, unstaked Lime, verdigreace, and Red Lead: work these together, and lay them to the sore. Another for the same. Take three ounce of Quicksilver, and put it into a bladder, with two spoonfuls of the juice of Orange or Lemmons, and shake them together to cool the Quicksilver: then take half a pound of fresh Hogs grea●e, and of Vergiss and ounce: put all these in a Tréede dish, and work them well together: then anoint the Knots with this Ointment till they rot▪ then let them out with a sharp Knife, and anoint them still: and put into his ear the juice of Rag-wéed, and they will dry up. Probatum. A drink for the Farsey: Let him blood in the neck of both sides, four fingers from the head, and give him this drink. Take a Gallon of fair water, and put therein a good handful of Rue, and a spoon full of Hempséeds and bruise them into a mortar altogether, and seethe it till the half be consumed: and when it is cold, give it him to drink. For the Farsey. Take black Soap, Mustard made of sharp Wine or Vinegar, and Red Lead, mix all these together, and anoint the veins all along, rubbe it ever with an hot Iron made of purpose, but very thick: rubbe the Medicine much in with the Iron, being red hot. To destroy the Farsey, Take the juice of hemlock a good quantity, and bray them together, and put into the ears, & prick the knots and put in salt, and give him drink with sweet Wort, Fennell and Treacle. For a Horse foot, that is wronged in the foot lock. Seeth a quart of brine till the foam rise, then strain it and put thereto an handful of tansy, as much of mallows a saucerful of honey, & a quarter of a pound of shéeps Tallow: stir all these on the fire till the Herbs are well sodden, and all hot, lay it to the joint, & then lay a cloth over it, and it will be whole in three days. For a wrench in the foot-locke. Take Pompilion, naruile, & black soap, of each alike. & heat them hot on the fire and then a anoint him therewith. For a horse that is Stiffed or hipped, Take a pound of Bolearmoniacke, on quarter of red wine vinegar, six eggs beaten shells and all, two pennyworth of English honey, as much Venice Turpentine, one quart of flower, one good handful of bay-salt, and put all these in a pot, and keep it close all night, and the next day applay some of it to the hurt, dressing it once a day for nine days together. For a horse that is foundered. Take verdigreace, Turpentine, and salad-oil, two or three spoonfuls of Hog's grease, and bees wax one ozboile a together, and so dip flax or towin it, and stuff his feet there with, and let him blood in the toes. Another for the same Pluck off his shoes, and pair hollow his Feet nigh to the quick, then raze him with a crooked Lance from the heel to the toe in two or three places on both sides of the Hoof, and let him bleed well: then clap two or three hard Eggs to it as hard as he may suffer it: and as they cool, lay on more: and then lay hot horse dung upon them and about his feet, and he will soon recover if you give him rest. For a horse that is foundered in his feet. Take tar, neats-foot oil, and the yolks of eggs, i.d. worth of verdigreace, and some Wheat bran, and boils these together, and bind them under his foot very hot. If he foundered in his body. Take ob of Garlic two, d. worth of powder of Pepper-ii. d. worth of powder ginger ii d. worth of grains brut, sed, and put into a bottle of stolen ale the best you can get and give it him to drink, and litter him to the belly and lay-clothes on him as many as he can bear: and let him blood on the sides. For blindness Take two dry tile stones, and rubbe them together and blow the powder of it with a quill into his eyes three or four times. For the web in the eye. Take the lean of a gammon of bacon, and dry it, & thereof make powder, and use the powder, and it will cure it. For the pearl in the eye, Take the juice of ground-ivy, the juice of salandine, and woman's Milk, and put it into the eyes, and it will also cure him. For the Maw in the eyes. Make a plaster of the juice of ground-ivie, and of juie-berries stamped in a Mortar, beaten with wine or water: and plasterwise lay it one the eye or eyes evening and morning. Another for the same. Some take a Needle and a double thread, and thrust the needle through the film of the eye wherein the Crush groweth; which pull out, laying it on your finger's end, and holding the Needle and thread strait, and so cut away the hard matter a penny breadth, but beware you cut not away the hard fat, which is the wash of the eye: neither cut the Film wherein the Eye groweth; but cut between the film and the crush, and then squirt in beer. For a Canker in the Eye. Take roch Alum & green copris, of each alike boil them in three pints of running water, until the one half be consumed; then take it from the fire, and once a day wash his eyes therewith, being made lukewarm. For a stroke in the eye. Lay thereto the juice of Smallage, Fennell, and the white of an Egg. For a windgall. Take and cut the Skin, then take a spoonful of Oil de. bay, one spoonful of turpentine, i. d. worth of Verdigreace the white of an Egg, and a quarter of an ounce of Red Lead: boil them together, and it will make a Salve, lay the same to the place where you did cut him. Probatum. Another for the same. First clppe off the Hair bare, then cut it the length of a B●ane, and let it out: but beware of 〈◊〉 Sinews that you cut not them: then have ready molten Rosen, Sheep's tallow, and brimstone, boiled together: then lay on this medicine, but beware it be not too hot. For the Spavin. Take Mustardseed, and Oil de Bay, and Cow dung, the roots of Mallows, a quantity of Turpentine, di. oz. of Bolearmoniacke, beat them to powder, and work them together, and bind them hot to the Spavin. For the blood Spavin, and bone Spavin. Take up the vein above and beneath the joint, and let it bleed well, then knit up the veins, and anoint them with butter till they be whole. For the bone Spavin. For the Bone Spavine, prick it with a sharp pointed Knife, then take a piece of candle, and lay a piece of brown Paper upon it, and with a hot Iron melt the tallow, and after anoint it with butter. For inflammation of the Cod. Boil groundsel in wine and vinegar, and so bathe him therewith, and use to ride him into the water. Another for the same. Take a quart of good alewort, and set it on the fire, with the crumbs of brown bread strongly leavened, and a handful of Commin (or more) in powder: make a plaster of all these and bean flower, and apply it to the grief as hot as it may be suffered. Another for the same. Take new cow dung and seeth it in milk; then make a Plaster, and lay it upon the grief as hot upon the swelling as may be: For swelling in the Cod. Let him assail a mare, and give him no provender, and let him blood above the great vein between the Hips, and lay thereto hard eggs in his own dung and make a plaster of the same, and lay it to the Cod, and if it help him not, let him stand in the water half an hover. For the Strangullion. Take bread and bays, of Laurel, and temper them together with may butter, and give him there of three days together, and he shall be whole. For festering of the sore. Take lime and tough horse dung, and temper them together with Pepper and the white of an egg, and lay it to the sore five days, and it will cure him. A drink for the stone. Take a pint of white wine, half a pint of burr feed and beat them small, two oz. of Parsely seed, half a handful of hyssop, half an oz. of black soap: mingle these together, and warm it, and give it him. For the stone Colic, and fret. Take unset leeks, and stamp them small, and Soap, milk, and butter, and give it the horse: it will make him piss. For a horse that cannot stolen. Take a Nutmeg, and a handful of parsley, séed, beat them in powder, and a handful of butter, and heat it in good Ale, and give it him blood-warme, and he shall stolen at ease. For the stone and to make him piss. Take the seed of Smallage, Parsely Saxefrace, the roots of philudendula, Cherry-stone Kernels, Grunsellseedes, and broom seed, of every one alike much: make them in fine powder, and give it him in white Wine. For a Horse that cannot dung. Take eleven leaves of Lorell, and stamp them in a Mortar, and give it him to Drink in strong stolen Ale. Another for the same. Take Barley and seethe it in the juice of Gumfolly, and give him the Barley to eat and the juice to drink. Another for the same. Or else, take and let him blood, and boil the blood with the powder of the pill of Pomgranats, and put in some Wheat: hen strain it, and give it him to drink three or four mornings, but let him not travail. Another for the same. Take the powder of Licoris and Annis seeds, depiction of the farrier's profession diagram of a farrier's tools depiction of a man on horseback rolled up in Honey and give him three or four balls of them at a time, pulling out his Tongue, and putting it in his throat: It looseth his breath and setteth his wind at liberty, and purgeth the cold and stiffness, and expelleth the Glanders. Bruised Licoris, Annis seeds, Garlic bruised, a little Salad oil, and Honey given blood warm in Milk cureth many diseases and keepeth him from more. For a Horse that is broken wound. Take a Hedgehog and split him and take out his guts, and dry them up in an Oven until you make powder of them, give it to your Horse to drink in a pint of strong Ale, a part thereof: then take Balls of Annis seeds and Licoris rolled in butter, and cast them downe-his throat, and wash his Oats in good Ale or Beer, then take Commin, Annis seeds, Licoris and Sentalie, and make powder of them, and strew three spoonful in his Oats, being moist: use this same Fourteen days. Another if he be pursy. Take Molline or Long wort; and make a powder thereof, and give it him to drink with water, and it will heal him. Or you may take the Powder of Gensian at the Apthecaries, and that will heal him also. For a horse pricked with a Nail. Take out the hoof till you come to the bottom, or Vein; then take Turpentine. i. oz. Tar i. oz. Pitch i. oz. Beef Suet i. oz. and one head of Garlike●: Boil them altogether, and lay them to it so hot as may be suffered: and if it chance to break out above the Hoof, then take the said medicine, and anoint it therewith. To heal a Mangy Horse. Let him blood on both sides his Neck, then cut the Skin in the midst of the Forehead two fingers broad, then raise the Skin on both sides, and put in slices of Angelica root, or Elecampana; leave them till it rot, than thrust out the matter, but leave the roots; they will come out as he healeth, anointing the Mangy places with Oil Olive. Another for the same. Take Lamp Oil, fine powder of brimstone, of black Soap, Tar, barrow Hogges-greace, and the Suit of a chimney; of each alike, and then mix them altogether, and anoint the place therewith so hot as may be suffered, and it will help him. For the mangy of a dog. Take Vinegar, Gunpowder, black Soap, Brimstone, Alum, and Verdigreace: boil altogether with Honey and rub over the mangy place. For the strangle-halt. Take up the Master-veine above the knee, and underneath the same Vein lieth a string, cut it away: then cut him below the nostrils, and take away two strings, and then anoint him with butter and Salt. For the Mares Evil. Take Milk, Oatmeal, Mallows, Wormwood, Horehound, and Smallage, wring these together with your hands, and boil them together till they be soft, and lay it to the grief, which will bring it to a head: than you must launce it; then take Red Lead, Alum, and Rosen, beat these to powder, and cast upon it. To take away the bones, Knobbe, or Ringbone. Take a pound of strong Lée, and Soap, a quarter of Vitrial Rom●… i. oz. of Salarmoniacke, as much of Roch Alum, and boil them together till they are thick, and so use it for an Ointment. Gypsiacum the strongest kind, lay it to with Cotten three or four times, will take it away. This is good also for a splint: and though it be a Thistula in the Crown it will sink it. For the Powle-evill; which cometh of a bruise behind the Ears. Take a hot Iron, but first take up the hair all the whole compass; then search it with a hot Iron, and then take 〈◊〉 Lead and black Soap, and mingle them with water, and make it thick, and anoint him therewith till it be whole. To make water for the same. Take a quart of water, half a pound of Roach Alum, iiii, d. worth of Mercury, a quarter of a pound of verdigreace: and when you see the horse curb his head, wash him with this water. Another for the same. Lay a Plaster of Hogs grease on, to ripen 〈◊〉 place, and when it is rive, lance it, and thrust through a hot Iron, if it be very deep, and keep it open wi●… tents made of Sponge, and dip it in Hogs grease: use this for four days, then take Turepentine, and the yolks of Eggs and Saffron and mingle them together, and dip your tents of Sponge therein, and be sure they go to the bottom, and Plaster it with Hogs grease: and this will cure him. For the Canker. You must take out his tongue, and let him blood in five or six places; and like wise on his upper lip that he may bleed well, and all berubbe his tongue and lips with salt, than the next day wash his tongue and lips with vinegar, and rubbe it again with Salt, and give him warm drink and new Beer a day or two. For a colt-Evill. Take the juice of Hemlock, and wash his yard and rods therewith. Another for the same. Take bean flower, vinegar, and Bolarmoniacke, and work these together, and lay it to the cod. Another for the same. You may wash his shed with warm vinegar, and draw forth his yard, and wash it also: then ride him into the water: let him swim, and there toss and turn him: use this two or three weeks. For the coying. If he halt, pull off his shoe and open the place pricked with a Knife, and power in Turpentine, War, and Sheep's suet, being melted together: then close it up, and set on the shoe again: let him rest, and come in no ●…et ground. Some do use to burn the hole with a hot Iron, when they have pulled out the Nail; and some do power in boiled butter in the hole once a day, and it hath cured it. Another for the same. Take a handful of nettles, of black soap, of vinegar, of each of them a spoonful, and three times so much Boars grease or Bacon grease; then stamp them well together, and stop the Sore therewith, and it will not rot any further, but heal, although you labour him. Some do stop up the hole when they draw forth the nail, with tallow and horse-dung, and then set on the Shooe. For the Cordes. The cure is to flit it, and with a Bucks horn to take it up, and tie it in two places, and cut it away. Another for the same. Take Mustard, and Aquavity, and Salad Oil, and boil them on the coals, and make a Plaster, and hind it hot to the place. It is good also for any strain, so it be new done. Another for the same. Take the Grounds of Ale, and being made warm, bathe his Legs therewith, and wisp him with a Hay rope. Another for the same. Take smallage, and an herb called Oxeye, and some Sheep's suet, chop them altogether, and boil it in man's urine, and bathe the place therewith, and wet a Hay-hand in it, and roll up the leg therewith, Probatum. For the Curbs. Fret his Legs with thy hand, and then take red Colewort leaves, and Barrage, and bray them together, and lay it thereto five days. Seethe a pound of black Soap in a quart of strong Ale, till it look like Tar, and anoint the Sinews therewith, and it will supple them, and bring them to the right course. It is good for a man, if he be stiff in the joints. For the Enterfeeting. He may be much helped by shooing with a skilful Smith: But if the Skin be off, take May-butter, with a quantity of yellow Rosen, as much Naruel; then fry them together in a Pan, and let it stand till it be cold, and put it in a Pot, and put to it a little new Cow dung, and make Plasters thereof and bind it to the place. This will heal also the● prick of a Nail. For the Narvell galled. Take Sut of a Chimney, and Yeest mixed together, and Plaster it on: but shift it once a day. Another for the same. Take nettle seeds, & mix them with Salad oil and anoint the sore, or chafe it therewith. Some use to wa●h him with warm water, and then anoint the place with Grease and Salt mixed together. Another for the same. Take herb bittony, brimst one in powder of Elibory, pitch, and old grease, and stamp them together: and when you have washed them with Chamber-lée, anoint him with this medicine. A water for a Galled back, or any foul sore. Take a pottle of verjuice, three penny worth of green Copris, and boil it to the one half, or more, and wash the Sore with that, and then fill the Sore with red Lead; and let it not be dressed of three days: and then dress him again, as you shalsee cause. For a green wound. Take white Wine and make it warm, and wash the Wound therewith, then take Turpentine, M●…p, and a little Wax, and me it them together, being stirred, continually till they are well mixed, and then use it. If it be a cut, Take Tow, and dip if therein, and fill the wound with it: If it be a hole, make Tents for the place. Another for the same. Take Hogs grease and Venice Turpentine▪ and melt them together: and if it be a Cut, take Tow and dip therein, and fill the wound therewith. If it be a hole make Tents, and dress it therewith. For a hot imposthume in any outward part. Stamp Liverwort, and mix it in the Grounds of Ale Mallows, and Hogs grease, being made hot, and lay it thereto. Another for the same. Bruise Lettuce seeds, and Poppy seeds, and mix them with Oil of Red roses, and plasterwise lay it on the sore. For a cold Impostume. Take the herb Balm; stamped and mixed with Hogs grease, and Plasterwise lay it to it. Another for the same. Séethe white Mint in Wine or Ale, with Oil or butter and lay it hot to the place. To ripen any Impostume. Seeth Mallows roots, and Lily roots, and then bruise them, and put thereto Hogs grease, and Lin séed meal: and Plaster wise lay it to it. For the Rheum. Let him blood in the Vein under the Taste, and rub his Gums with Sage tied to a sticks end, and give him for a while, the tender Crops of black Briers in his Provender. For lose Teeth. Prick the Gums with a Knife, and then rubbe them with Honey, Sage, and Salt, beaten together. The Sorrel Horse is most subject to this Disease. For the Fever. Let him blood in the Thigh in the middle vein four singers under his Tuell: or else, take the Vein in the Necks, and give him a drink. Another for the same. Take Water and Honey, the juice of Purslane, Gum Dragone●, and Frankincense in powder, with a few of damask Roses, and mix them altogether and give it him to drink. Another for the same. Take of Germander four ounces, of Gumdragonet, and of dried Roses, of each one oz. beat them all in fine powder, and put them in a quart of Good Ale, adding thereto Oil of Olive four oz. of Honey as much: and give it the horse luke warm to drink. If he draweth his breath short, and sigheth with all let him blood in the Neck: and then take a pint of Wine, with di oz. of Salad Oil, and mix therewith Frankincense: and with the three part of the juice of Mugwort, give it him to drink. For the Fronce or Fronts. You must cut or burn them out: then wash them with Beer and Salt, or Ale and Salt, and so they go away. For the Gigges or Flappes. Gigges or Flappes, are Pimples, or Teats in the insides of the mouth: you must cure them as you cure the Camery or Fronce; either will help him. It is good to pull out the Horse's Tongue very often for fear of breeding any Blisters or Blains, under his Tongue, or for fear of Hay-seed, which will breed to some of those diseases. For the Gorge, or to bring Hair again. Sear him with a hot Iron a handful above the knee▪ then rope him round about with a soft Rope of Hay, and power on cold water, and let it remain a night and a day. To bring Hair again. Take the dung of Goats, some Honey, and Alum, the blood of a Hog: mix them together, and heat them till they are ready to boil, and being hot, rubbe the place therewith. Another for the same. Take the soot of a Cauldron, mixed with Honey and Oil and anoint the place therewith. Take green walnut shells, and burn them to powder, and mix them with honey, Oil, and Wine, and anoint them therewith. For Gravelling. Thou shalt take off his Shoes, and pair out all the Gravel clean (for if you leave any Gravel it will breed to a soreness called a Quitterbone,) then must you stuff him with Turpentine and Hogs grease melted together, and dip in Tow or Flax, then clap on the thooe, and keep it stopped, and shift it every day till it be whole, and let him come to no wet: If you stop it not up well, it will rise above the hoof: than you shall have more business, and put your horse to more pain. For the molt-long. It is an ill soreness above the Hoof, which will breed out in Knobs and bunches, with a watery humour. If it be in Summer, take black snails, and burr roots, and beat them together, lay it thereto. If it be in Winter, take the scraping of the bottom of the shagges of the Burr roots, and put to it a handful of the inner bark of Elder, and beat them together, and plasterwise lay it to. Another for the same. Take Garlic, Pepper, and honey, and stamp them together, and anoint his Tongue therewith, and thereof lay some to his Pasterns. To stop a Laske of a Horse. Take Beane flower, and Bolearmoniacke, of each a quart: mingle these together in a quart of Red Wine, and give it him lukewarm: let him rest and keep warm let him drink no cold water, but lukewarm: and put in Beane flower, and let him drink but once a day, and not overmuch, for the space of three or four days. Another for the same. Take ob. of Alum, beaten in fine powder, and Bolearmoniacke, beaten small: and a quart of good milk: mingle them together till the milk be of a curd, and give it him to drink, and diet him as afore said: and this will stop him. Probatum. For the Vines. Take E●remonic, honey, and violet leaves; stamp them together, and slit the sinnew underneath the ear and lay a Plaster thereto three days. For the Canker in the Nose or Mouth. If you see the Canker he of great heat, and burning in the Sore with exceeding pain, you shall take the juice of purslane, Lettuce, and S●…, or Night-wade, and wash the fore with a fine clout, or spout it on with a squirt, and this will kill it. Another for the same, most singular. Take H●…y, Sage, and Rue, of each a good handful, and se●th them in drine and Water, to the third part of them: strain them out and put in a little white Copris and Honey, and a quantity, and so wash the place with it. (It is a singular thing to remove the molles●…) which done, you shall make a water to heal it, as thus▪ Take rib-wort, bitonie, and Daisies, of each a handful: then seethe them in Wine and Water, and wash the sore three or four times a day. Some say, that crystal made in powder, is specially good to kill the canker. For any swelling of a Horse. Take hemlock and stamp it, and mingle it with sheep's dung and vinegar, and make a plaster, and lay it to the swelling. To heal the wound in the Lampas. Take a sawcerful of Honey, and 12. Peppertornes, and bray them together, and temper them with vinegar, and boil them a while, and then lay it on the wound three or four days: and then let him blood in the Lampas. For the Ring-bone mallender Take a paring of a cheese, and roast it well, and lay it to the mallender as hot as he may suffer it. Or else chafe it well till the blood follow, and anoint it thereon: chafe it with a hot Iron, so that it hold to the mallender: then take ten flowers of Gillyflowres, set well, and henne-mucke, and temper them well together and lay it on. FINIS. depiction of the farrier's profession diagram of a farrier's tools diagram of the veins of a horse I B The 2 temple v The 2 eye. v The 2 forehead. v The 2 pallet. v The 2 neck. ve The 2 plate. ve The 2 fore shank. ve The 2 side. ve The shank. ve The houfe. v The haunch. ve The tail. ve