¶ A plain and easy way to remedy a Horse that is foundered in his Feet: By which using this remedy (within xxiiii hours after his instant foundering) you may within xxiiij hours after the cure used, travel your Horse, and journey him at your pleasure, as if he had not been foundered at all.  
Set out by Nicholas Malbie Gentleman, servant to the Queen's most excellent Majesty.  
Imprinted at London by Thomas Purfoote, dwelling in Paul's Churchyard, at the sign of the Lucrece. 1576.   

To the right Worshipful master Edward Fitzgerald Esquire, lieutenant of the Gentlemen pensioners.  
SIR at my late being at the Court (which as I remember was about twelve months now past, at what time I came out of Ireland) and now again at my present being here, I have been requested by sundry honest Gentlemen, some my good friends and old acquaintance: some other, who knowing more my name then myself, have repaired unto me with like request, to instruct them, in the curing of a foundered Horse. Whose favours did move me to offer and promise' unto them, to put the same in print. Partly for their friendships' sakes: and partly to make a present thereof unto all my Countrymen that either be or intent to be travailers on horseback. Reputing it also convenient to publish the same in common, the rather, for that I judge the poorest sort shall receive most benefit thereby. And because it is not meet that this excellent cure should want them reputation it deserveth, neither to be accounted a vain thing not worthy the having, as many be that being printed have small credit notwithstanding they carry, probatum est, I do dedicated the same unto you, both for the friendly affection I owe you, and for that you can give good testimony of this cure, by an experience made upon an Horse of your own. I have caused the same to be printed, as well to ease myself of the travail I should have to answer every man's request: as to satisfy my friends, to whom I have made promise, and all others that are desirous to understand the knowledge thereof. Which I pray you may be under your protection, and presented to as many as you shall please, and of the rest let the Printer make his profit. So God keep you.  
From London the first of April. 1576. Your affectioned friend to command Nicholas Malbie.   

To the Reader.  
AMong many diseases which do reign in a Horse, I have seen that the foundering hath been reputed the most difficult to be cured. And as the gout in man is accounted an infirmity incurable: so is the foundering in a Horse (of most men) thought irrecoverable. I wish I could as well heal the one, as (by God's sufferance) I can give remedy for the other, I would as willingly present unto you both, as I do this one. Notwithstanding accept this as it is, and refuse it not, as sundry curious & scornful Farriers have done unto me, who neither knowing how to remedy the disease, nor willing to learn, have rejected at my hands the understanding of the cure, and as it were, in spite of art & cunning, cut out the souls of the horses feet (a thing commonly used among such ignorant persons) by which any Horse so misused shall never have his feet sound again, (whatsoever they promise' you,) where by this which I do here set out, neither shall you once remove your horses shoes, neither yet touch any part of his hoof or feet, and yet shall your Horse be as sound as ever he was.  
Farewell. London first of April. 1576.   

The way and mean touching the said Remedy.  
WHen you found your Horse to be foundered in his feet, which you shall perceive by drawing in all his four legs together, & by his standing crooching as though he stood upon needles, & will be loath to go: you must 'cause him to be let blood on his two breast veins of his two forelegs somewhat above the knees. Let him also blood on his spur veins on both his sides, and on the veins of his two hinder feet a little above the hoof, between the hoof and the pastern, as you may perceive by this Picture.   diagram illustrating where to let blood from a lame horse 
Let the veins bleed well, to the quantity of a quart, or three pints. which blood you must save in some vessel, & stir it with a stick to keep it from cluttering: and when he hath bled as abovesaid, put it all into one vessel: then stop the wounds with some horsedung, or some earth, and make a Charge with the blood in this sort:  
Take as much wheat meal (as it cometh from the mill) as will make the blood somewhat thick and put it into the blood. Take eight or ten eggs raw, and break them also into this blood, shells and all: Take a pint of strong vinegar, and a quantity of Bole Armoniac brayed, and put them into the same blood also. Which done you shall stir them all together. Then shall you with your hand lay the said Charge all along upon the reins of the Horses back, upon his buttocks, and down his shoulders: as by this picture you may see.   diagram illustrating where to apply the charge on a lame horse 
When you have laid on this Charge thus, you shall take two Linen rags dipped in the same Charge, with which two rags so dipped, you shall garter the Horse above the knees of his two forelegs somewhat hard. (That done) 'cause him to be walked upon the hardest ground you can find, for the space of two or three hours: if he be loath to go (as commonly he will be) let one follow him and beat him with a stick or wand to force him to go, Then after this walking let him be set up & tied to the rack that he lie not down, and there let him rest two or three hours: which done, let him be walked again two or three hours more, as aforesaid. Then set him up and let him feed, and when you give him drink (which you may do within two or three hours after his feeding) let the water be heated somewhat hot, and put some grounded malt, or some bran into it, and let him drink it blood warm, and feed a little after it, Then ride him a little, and if you let him stand an hour or two in a pool of standing water up to the belly, and one upon his back, it is good to do it, and after that ride him again a little. Then let him be set up, well dressed and covered, and so by little and little ride him a day or two, and then may you boldly journey him, for it is riding that bringeth the Horse to the perfectness of his feet, and you shall find our Horse as sound as ever he was, for this cure is infallible. I have myself helped and cured about a hundred Horses, and for sundry of them so cured by me, I have good testimony of divers Gentlemen now present at the Court.  

Certain notes touching this cure to be observed.  
YOu shall not need to take of the Horses shoes, nor to touch them at all, except it be to amend them for some other needful cause.  
You must after xxiiii. hours rub of the Charge from the Horse back.  
You must take of the Garters after xii. or xiii. hours, and rub his knees up and down with your hands, to put the numbness away.  
You shall also understand that I have helped many Horses, either without Vinegar or Bole Armoniac, for that I have been in place where I could not have it. I have also used Oaten meal when I could not have wheat meal.  
I have also healed a Horse by letting him blood in the neck, when he would not bleed in the veins before prescribed, and used and compounded the same blood, as above is written.  
I do also seldom use the standing of the horse in a pool of water, as before is said.  
But if you do all, as is first written, it is the best and surest way no doubt: but if you be in place where you can not attain to all the premises, you shall make good shift with part of it. And surely I do find that it is the taking of the blood that is the chief and principal cause of the cure.  
And where I do writ also that you must take your Horse in hand (to cure him) within xxiiii. hours after his first foundering, I think good to let you understand that it is best so to do, and yet did I once help a Horse of mine own that had been foundered five days, and he was very-well cured, but he asked four or five days more to come to the perfectness of his feet, then usually the Horses do; that be taken in hand, as above said.  
This cure hath also this virtue, that your Horse being once cured, shall not commonly or never founder again. I never heard of any that so did but one, which was M. Edward Fytzgeraldes' Horse, whom he helped presently again with the same cure, and he hath the same Horse at this day as sound as ever he was.  
Thus much I have thought good to say touching the observation of the cure upon any necessity; when you can not be in place to provide you of all such things as be requisite for the same.