THE HONEST AND PLAIN 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 myself, there being nothing contained therein but what is of my own experience and practise.  
By THOMAS GRYMES.  
LONDON, Printed by Wil● Louts for Andrew K●●●be dwelling by St: Margaret's hill in long Southw●cks▪ 1636.   


A GOOD AND necessary Book for curing diseases, and hurts in Horses: gathered and written for the good of any that will practise, there being nothing contained therein, but what is of my own experience and practice, and whereof I have had good proof.  

And first for diseases in the head of a Horse.  
HEADACHE, which sometime cometh of choleric humours bred in the brain, or of some extreme heat, or by some stroke, or such like, the sign of all such infirmities. The Horse will be heavy, hang down his head, and his eyes will be swollen dim and waterish.   

Remedies for the same.  
Squise the juice of ground-ivy into his nose thriles it is good, or burn the blades of Garlic and Frankincense in a Chafindish, and hold the horse nose over it that the smoke may go into the same, this will purge his head marveilously, and do this so often as ye shall think needful, or let him blood in the palate of his mouth if the sign be not there, or sneezing powder and pepper brayed together and blown into his nose with a quill is also very good.  
For watering of a Horse's eyes,  
Which may come to a young Horse by eating over-dry and hard meats.   

The remedies.  
Let him blood on his temple vain, or on the vain under his eye, or on the neck which assuageth the humours of the whole body, and if it have continued long, then wash it with the juice of planteine, but if it come of a stroke, then make a cake or a ball of pimpernel and swine's dung, dry it in an oven ●ill it will be 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 Apothecary hath it bray it and blow it into he ahorse 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 heal the sore again take a little honey, a little pepper, temper them with a quantity of vinegar, boil them together a little space on the fire, and therewith anoint the sore three or four days together, or to let him blood with a phlegm or a knife's point on both sides of his mouth, but beware lest ye cut the vein which comes right down the palate of his mouth, for so he may bleed to death, and if ye fear he shall bleed too much, give him a little malt to eat very small ground.   

There is a malady in a Horse mouth that will hinder him to eat his meat.  
There be little small or round swellings in the mouth and lips of a horse, which will make him let his meat fall out of his mouth as though he had the Lampas, clip them away with a pair 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 evil by these tokens, he will ye down often, and offer to welter or tumble, he will offer to gnaw and bite at his sides; he will strike ahis belly with his hinder feet, and his sides will flacke and beat sore, and in a short time it will pierce thorough his maw, than he shall be in great danger to die, but to help him at the first.  
Take out the guts of a young Pullet, make your horse head be holden up and put them into his throat while they be warm, and make him swallow them down; do thus three mornings together, and let him neither eat nor drink after for the space of four or five hours.  
Or take a peck of Rye, steep it in water a day and a night, then take it forth and lay it on a dry earthen floor as much as ye can from the wind, 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 handfuls for his first meal in a morning and thus do five or six mornings one after another.   

Helps for the sinews if they be either pricked or cut asunder.  
If a sinew be pricked, take these hot things, meat, oil, swine's grace, honey, of each alike, putting thereto powder of Vares, make a plaster of all together, and lay it to the sinew, dress it so every day till it be whole, and if the flesh be piersed or cut, th●● boil bean meal and barley me●●e in wine, with a quantity of honey, till it be plaster thick and lay that on the sore.   

Another yet for the same, which takes away all aching of sinews bruised or pricked.  
Take crops of walwort mallow leaves, of each two handful, of lily roots a handful, stamp them well altogether, and boil them on the fire in a quantity of honey till they be thick like a plaster, 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 again, then take groundwormes, the greater the better, stamp them with a little honey, then warm 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 ye can avoid it.   

Of the enchafing of a Horse neck, or other place of him, which may come by heat of blood after great travel, which by rubbing against a wall, or a tree will cause scabs rise in his neck, among the hair, sometime on the saddle place, to help this.  
Take unquenched Lime a quantity, such like of beans ashes, or of bean straw, then take old piss, set it on the fire till it boil, and skime it clean, 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 clear into another vessel, and every day once, wash the malady with a quantity thereof made hot.   

When an horse halteth to know whether the harm be in the shoulder, knee, or in his foot, and to help him.  
If the harm be in his foot, he will forbear to tread strait, but even upon the point of his foot, and he will bear it far from him, and make semblance as though he would fall often, he will make like signs, and if the grievance be either in his knee or shoulder, than ' its doubtful to be incurable, unless it come by a stroke or a fall, ye may use softening ointments, but they will do no great good. Some will fear them where they think the disease to be, which is contrary to nature, for that the disease cometh of dryness: 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. handful, of Bayleaves, Pennyroyal, Hyssop, Crowfoot, Okeleaves, and red Fenel, of every one a handful, boil all these herbs in fair 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 days together, and afterward anoint and rub well into it this subsequent unction, which is made in manner as here is set down, ten handful of the leaves of Pelitory, Bayleaves, and okeleaves, of either five handful, of Sage-leaves four handful, stamp all these herbs very small, boil them then a good space, and with a soft fire, in a gallon of butter, and a quart of neat-oyle: then strain all thorough a canvas bag or cloth, and keep it then as ye can conveniently, either in a box, or whatsoever, and if ye have of this ointment in store, ye need never to use Oil de bay, Nerve-oyle, nor any other that can be named. And if a horse foot be hurt with a stub, or pricked with a nail in shooing, then search it well with thy instrument for that purpose, than put a little tallow, or rather Turpentine in the hole, cover it with his own dung, and set on a shoe, but so as ye may take it off again at your pleasure, to dress the foot as need shall require.  
And if a horse halt through tenderness of his hoof, or breaking away thereof, thus he may be holpen, and his hoof made to grow again. Take 2. ounces of Roson, as much of sheep's tallow, half an ounce of frankincense, and half an ounce of virgin wax, half an ounce of swine's grease, or more or less of every one as ye shall think good, melt them altogether and keep it for thine use, and when thou shalt use any thereof heat it, or turpentine and swine's grease boiled together is very good for this purpose, the salve must be rubbed on his foot under and above, especially at the top of his hoof under the hair these are excellent remedies for this matter.   

For Windgales.  
Every man knows of what fashion they be, and they are commonly on good horses legs, rather than on bad ones, and worse to sight then otherwise: but to cure them ye shall take a quantity of vinegar, a pottle, or as you please, if so much, then must ye have thereto two pound of armement, half a pound of galls, and half a pound of moleine leaves, stamp them, or bray them small, and temper them altogether with the vinegar, 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 four days together; that done, lap his leg above and beneath the gales, then chafe or rub them with your hand, which will make them rise full, that ye may see them the better, then strike your phlegm into them as deep as ye dare for piercing the sinews, thrust the matter well out of them with your finger, and have ready a hot Iron blunt at the point, and therewith sear the holes which ye make, and every day after wash them with the liquor aforesaid, and it will soon be whole.   

For the Stranglion:  
Take the bark of an Elm tree which grows upon some water bank, if you can get such, take away the outside thereof as Tanners cleanse their bark, chop it into small pieces, put it then into an earthen pot with wellwater, let it stand so 2. or 3. days, in which time much of the water will be sunk into the bark, fill up the pot then again with water, there will be two parts of bark, and the third part water, or rather 3. parts bark and the fourth water: boil these well together the space of half an hour, which done set it from the fire and let it cool, then strain it thorough a cloth and look how much liquor remains, put thereto so much of swine's grease, heat them then a little on the fire that they may be well blended, and every day pour a gille of this same into his nosethriles till a gallon of liquor be spent, when ye do it cause your horse head to be holden up, or take 8. or 10 handfuls of walwort, stamp it very small, then menge it with butter clean clarified, you must have a pottle of butter, put all in a vessel or pot, and let it stand so the space of 6 or 7. days, than set it on a soft fire and boil it, putting therein a pint or a quart of wine, and let it boil the space of a quarter of an hour, then streeme it through a canvas bag or cloth, and every day put some of this liquour into his nosethriles till all be spent. Or make 10. or 12. balls of May butter and Radish roots well stamped together, and make him swallow 2 or three of those balls every day, and if ye wet them a little in honey they shall be the better, cause his head to be holden or tied up, that they may go down his throat.   

Costifenes how it may be engendered and to help its.  
It may come with eating overmuch dry meats, or for want of water in convenient times, or of cold taken after travel. The horse that is so will forbear his meat, he will thrust out his head and hang it far from him, and his belly will be stiff and hard. To help him hereof, take the roots of Walwort or rather the out side or rinds of the roots, and of the rinds of the middle pith of Elder, of each of these a handful, boil them in three pints of water till one pint be wasted, then strain it thorough a cloth, make his head be bound or holden up, and power the Liquor into him milk warm, then cover him very warm with clothes, and within an hour or two, he will dung and so after that, more and more. Or stamp onions and butter together, and make pellits thereof, so long as a man's finger, put three or four of them in at the horse fundament, then walk him or ride him forth the space of an hour or two after, & this will help him without fail. If a horse may not piss well.  
Take the root of gladine that bears the yeolow flower, of walwort crops, of egremony, of chervel of each a handful, boil them in water, strain it thorough a cloth, give him a quart thereof at once milk warm ride him in the fields a good trot the space of half an hour, set him up in the stable, cover him warm, & a while after he will stolen, cause him to be rubbed well under the belly with a wisp, especially about the Share, & within a day after let him blood on the great vain of his thigh.   

For to help the Ring-bone.  
Take easel, armement, & a quantity of verdgrece boil them in a little swine's grease, rub this well, and often, in the disease. Or take an ounce of vertigrece and an ounce of frankincense a quantity of bores grece, make a plaster, and lay it on the ring-bone, but if you lance the skin a little it is better, not deep for fear of hurting sinews.   

For the Malanders.  
Rub them with honey, take a shive of cheese tossed it well at the fire, and bind it to the sore as hot as ye think he is able to endure it, Or rub them with a wisp, or a hard cloth till the blood come, anoint them then with a little fat bacon, then lay on powder of Brimstone, and hold a hot iron to it so near as conveniently you can to make it cleave on, that done, have a plaster ready to tie about the sore compounded of a quantity of garlic, hens' dung, the gall of a swine if ye can get it, and mustered, and new this plaster as ye see it to be needful.   

For craches, or as some call them scratches.  
Clip away the hair as near as ye can, than stamp hens dung and goose dung together, with a quantity of May butter make it hot, and so lap it on the sore, or mingle lime, honey, and salt together & lay them hot on the disease.   

For the Pains, and how to cure them.  
Take a spoonful or two of honey a quantity of soot of a chimney, a handful of nettles, in winter the roots, stamp them altogether, make plasters thereof and lay them hot on the sore do so every day, or bind unto it copost of a man, immediately as he hath left it at the stool Or take a spoonful of utrament powdered 2 yolks of eges, 2 whole leeks or more or less of these as need requireth, stamp them altogether with a quantity of swins grese & honey, & lay them to the malady, & when ye see it begin to heal anoint it with sheep's tallow.   

For a disease called chawdpisse which is hot piss a burning or scalding heat of his water which when he staleth will be red, almost like blood.  
To help him, make him drink every day for the space of 4 or 6 days, a gallon of whey in a dark place and if he be loath to take it, let him be kept from other water or liquor till he be very desirous of drink. Or take 6 handfuls of pentafilon, some call it five leased grass wash it clean, 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 fire make it boil till the one half or more be wasted then strain it thorough a cloth, and either let him drink this liquor, or power it into him with a horn three or four mornings, and it will help him.   

How to heal a Curb  
First clip the hear clean away, then garse the place with a razor or sharp knife, but not too deep for fear of cutting the sinews, and cut it even down the leg than struck the blood out with your hand or with a small rod, that done, rub it every day with a little soap & salt or anoint it with honey wormwood and swine's grece mingled, and do this twice on a day.   

For the Glanders.  
Take 3 or 4 penny worth of oil debaie, as much of popilion, three half penny worth of oil olive or, more or less of all these as need is, boil them altogether a while on the fire and therewith anoint the sore. Or take Leeks and sheep snet boil them together and make means to bind them to the sore with a cloth.   

For a Tanite.  
Shave the hair away with a raisour till blood spring out, take then a cock or other pullet cleave him right by the back not clean through into two pieces, and while he is warm, bind him to the horse leg guts and all, let him remain so two days and two nights, and when ye take him away, wash the place with warm water, and when the leg is dry, then lay on it a plaster made of bacon & wheat flower and let that lie on two days, or wind his leg with asmal cord and it will make the vein rise full under his fetlock. Let him blood there, strike not your sleame too deep for hurting the sinews, and when it hath bled well bind unto it the white of an egg.   

For the Bots.  
Take as much black soap as a walnut or as a good crabe a spoonful of the powder of sencreke, a spoonful of the black ermnies a quantiti of brimstone, and a little salt, mingle all these in ale and give him to drink, and thereupon ride him forth a quarter of an hour, and let him not drink after till night, or nor till next morning if ye give him this medicine late on the day.   

For a horse that is broken wound.  
Let him blood in the nose with an awl if the sign be not there, then take a penny worth of long pepper, as much of grains of Mace as much of round pepper as much, mingle all these in a pint of red wine and so much of old ale give him this to drink four mornings, let him have nooe other drink till mid day then give him a gallon of water lewe warm, and a handful or two of ground Malt pu● therein, wrap his legs those days up to his body, and cover him warm, and maost his hay with water for these four days.   

If a Horse be gawled or hurt on his back with a Saddle.  
Wash the sore well with old piss, then strew upon on it brayed rosin, and when you see it begin to heal, make a plaster with honey, flower and an egg, & lay that upon it, or the powder of honey and lime burned together, will cure that or any other sore.   

A good remedy for the scab.  
Wash the horse with old piss or Lie, then take a quantity of quickesilver, Brimstone, spanish, soap, vertigrece, and swine's grece, boil altogether, and rub them all over his body, rub hard and chafe the salve into his skin,   

If a horse be hurt or bruised so as he pisseth blood.  
Seeth Barley in the juse of Comfrey, give him the barley to eat, and the juse to drink.   

For a horse that is surbayte.  
Take virgin wax, Rosen, pitch, and sheep's tallow, boil them and make plasters, and them about the foot or feet that are surbaite.   

To take dead flesh out of a wound or any sore.  
Put compost or excrements 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 egg with salt, and lay that on the sore with a cloth or flax, and wash it every day with piss, or boil vertegreece and sheep's tallow together, it will do the same, or honey and lime burned together, the powder thereof is good, for it will both eat away the dead flesh, and heal the sore, but at every dressing, you must wash the wound with piss.   

For a splint.  
Take a great onion, make it hollow, put into it a quantity of lime vertigreece, and lavender seeds, then roast it till it be soft, lance the splint, lay the same to it warm, and and it will cure it.   

If a horse yard or cod be hurt with a stroke, so that they swell.  
Take two or three handfuls of smallage, or more if you list, stamp it in a mortar or other things, wring out the juice into some vessel, get as much red wine lies if it be possible, else of other wine, mingle them well together, and there withal wash his yard & cod three or four times a day it is excellent for that purpose.  
Here is an end of Cures, and medicines, I could and might have set down many more medicines, but these already set down have I found best in use, and they will not fail.    

And here follows party observations: first to make a horse quick on the spur that is dull.  
Pierce 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, keep him so three or four days that he be not ridden, 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 piss, salt, and nettle roots boiled together, then anoint the places with a little honey it will heal 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 burn it, and bray it to powder, then take lily roots, daisy roots, and the roots of white briar, of every one alike much dry them, and make them into powder, then shave the place you would have white till the blood be ready to follow, then rub it soar with all the powders blended together, get two or three mould warpes boil them a great space in water, and put into it when it hath boiled a good while, a quantity of honey and a quantity of honey sokle flowers if ye can get them, wash it thus 3 or 4. days, keep the wind from it as much as you can, and it will grow white, and so continue for ever.   

To cause a Horse that he shall not neigh.  
Where or whensoever you would keep your horse from neighing tie but a little woollen list about the midst of his tongue.   

For the yeolowes.  
First let him blood on the neck then take one half penny worth of long pepper, as much of bays, as much anneseedes, of fenecreke, of grains of lichorish, of every one, one half penny worth, of safron a penny worth, and if you take a quantity of goose dung and strain it, and put the juice thereof in your medicine it will be the better, and two spoonfuls of the roots of Elen a campana dried and made into powder, or you may take more or less of all these things, as the disease shall seem to be increased, (or increasing) This midicine should have been written in the former part of the book, 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 sheep's tallow two pound of rosin three pound, of that rosin which is like frankincense half a pound, of bees wax half a pound, of turpentine a quarter of a pound, melt all these together, and when they are melten put therein an ounce of vertigrece small powdered, but if ye put in your turpentine while it is hot, new taken from th● fire, it is not amiss, stir or mingl● them all well with a stick, the power all into a basin or pan 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, cleanseth, and healeth any wound in a horse, so would 〈…〉 do in a man as I verily suppose.    
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