THE Perfect and Experienced FARRIER.  
Being necessary for all Gentlemen-Troopers, Farmers, Farriers, Carriers, Carmen, coachmen, and Horse-coursers, &c. Showing a most Exact, easy and Speedy way of Curing all Sorances and Diseases incident to Horses (and other Cattle.) Wherein is showed the true Anatomy and Inside of a Horse, with his entrails, sinews and number of Bones, and veins necessary for Blood-letting.  
Never before Published.  
Written by ROBERT BARRET of Esborne in Sussex, and Published for the good of his Country.   medical examination of a horse 
LONDON Printed by T. faucet, for Fr. Coals, dwelling at the lamb in the Old-bailey, 1660.   

The true Anatomy and Inside of a Horse.  
  

TO THE READER,  
Gentle Reader,  
MAny books have been published concerning horsemanship, and the Curing of such Diseases, as commonly happen to that Beast, but I have found that many of their works are mere Collections out of others, and not their own practice, so that they scarcely know the right office of any member, but rash by prescribe they know not what, as being not able to judge truly of the difference between one Sorance and another. My Advertisement to you therefore is, that You would truly observe every thing which I prescribe, and not run after each new Invention, that is only applauded, because it is polished over with fine Phrases, which I want to set forth my work withal; for all the Authors or Eloquence that I have to persuade you is my own Practice and Experience: which that You may understand, I have here placed the proportion of a Horse, with the Letter B, upon every outward vein where You ought to let Blood, explaining each Sorance, and the Cure thereof, where I begin with a deformed member in the Head, and so preceded to the rest in order, and from the outward Grievances refer You to the inward hereafter following.  
  

THE Perfect and Experienced FARRIER. showing A most Exact, easy and speedy way of Curing all Sorances and Diseases incident to Horses.  
alave-eared Horse is unseemly, yet the Member is according to the Breed of the Horse, but notwithstanding many of them do prove very good for Service; therefore I have thought fit to prescribe you a way how to set and make his ears stand and be as complete as any other Horses ears be. First, take a pair of shears and pare his ears so small as you desire, and then cut away the skin between his ears, and with a drawing hot Iron sear the Sinew between the Head and the ear, until it begin to look yellow, which done, you may anoint the Sore with Hogs-grease and Butter, and Honey boiled together, and then put a flat string over his ears to keep them as you desire to have them stand, washing the Sore once in two days with white Wine vinegar, and Salt warmed together; and laying it on the salve with a feather gently, that you make not the Horse wild and fearful about the head; for I have known many Horses spoiled by being too hasty with them: Wherefore I advise you to deal gently and quietly at all times, and upon all occasions throughout every Cure that you take in hand.  
If the Horse eyes be lank or thick, then look that his eye-teeth be not grieved, or that the Wolves teeth trouble him not: if they do, pull them out, and let him blood under the eye and in the nose with a naule, and anoint his eyes with the fat of a fresh eel. Proved.  
And if he have a Canker, take hogs-grease, roch-allum, white copperas, bowl armoniac, and temper them together, until they be so mixed that you cannot discern the one from the other, and put some of the salve into the eye once in two days, and this serves for any speck or pin or wefe: and if the Haw be rank cut it out, and spir't in wine or beer, and it will do well again. Proved.  
For the Canker in the nose, take Whitewine vinegat, white copperas, roch alum, sage leaves, woodbine leaves, and coltsfoot, then boil them together, and strain the water, dressing the Canker once a day for two days, and afterwards but once in two days: this will also cure the Canker in the mouth, or any other part, so that you put in some Touchwood leaves into the same with a little honey. Proved.  
The Lampers are to be cut or burned or salted, and the Flapes or Bags are the like, but it is good to let blood in the third grise in the mouth, before you salted him.  
The Fives are hard round swellings between the jaw and the neck under the ears. For the Cure of which, you shall first launch the skin a little against the kernel, and then sear the Kirnoll with a small hot Iron, until it begins to look yellow, and then anoint it with oil of Camomile once in two days until it be whole, but always let him blood in the neck on both sides, and after he is whole, you may make a charge of Pitch and Rosin, bolearmoniac, mastic, and lay it on with flocks, letting it lie until it fall away of itself, and then anointing it once a week with a little hog's grease, camomile, and smalledge boiled together; which will serve for any swelling about the head, if it be anointed once a day, and will either ripen the sore, or cause the Swelling to vanish away.  
The Gare lieth in the throat, and may appear anywhere about the head or breast, but if it appear in the breast, we call it Anticor; these Sorances come suddenly, and are cured alike; First launch the skin, and then flay it so far as the swelling goes, and with a warm Iron sear the swelling or jelly, but not the skin, rubbing the place well with white wood ashes and bay salt: and fear not the Cure if he live but twelve hours after: and then you must provide some oil of Turpentine, and liquour the place where it is swelled: then may you take this drink, one pint of treacle, and a pint of sack, a spoonful of the powder of bay-berries, and a spoonful of turmeric, and boil these together, and give it the Horse to drink, and it will drive the gelid humours out, and the heat of the fire; the ashes and salt likewise will draw them ou ward, and so cure him. Provel.  
The Shoulder-sprained, is when he trails his toe on the ground, and carries it wide from his body, and if he prick his toe forward, than it is a sign that he may be Shoulder-pitched, which is easily seen; for if he be much lower and close in the top of one shoulder then the other, he is Shoulder-pitched, and then you must tie his forelegs together, and so draw him upon some beam▪ by which means his shoulder may come in his place again: which done, you shall let him blood in the plate-vein, and put in a rowel and blow his shoulder, anointing it with oil of spike, nerveoyle, and hogs-grease beaten together, and if it be but sprained, than you need but let him blood in the platevaine, and anoint him, and he will do well again in 12 days, if not, than rowel him as before expressed.  
The parsy is a swelling in any part of the body, and breaks out with knobs, which is thus cured, let him blood in those veins next the place infected, and take black soap, tar, bay-salt, and white copperas, and mix them together as you use them, and anoint the places well once in two days, and it will help him at three times dressing, but it is good to launch the knobs that be soft, and let out the filth.  
The Splint is apparent to every man, and is thus cured, Launch the skin thorough so long as the Splint goeth, and when you shall see the knob, take your drawing Iron red hot, and sear the knob till it begin to look yellow, and then lay a Charge of pitch and rosin, bolearmoniac, mastic, and sanguis draconis boiled together, and some flocks of the same colour, letting it lie until it fall away of itself, and then anoint the place with oil of turpentine once in two days, until it be whole, and the hair will come again, and it will be plain, and no eye-sore, but a small race like a cut. But if it chance to catch any grit or dirt, then wash it with wine vinegar, roch-allum, and butter, launch two holes, one above the Splint, and one beneath and open the skin so far as the knob goeth, and put in the root of Bares-foot, and let it stay in five days, anointing it with butter once a day.  
The ringbones are apparent, and the Cure is, if they be newly come, take up the Shackle veins on both sides of the foot, and with a flame prick the swelled places, so as they may bleed, then boiling hot, lay the Charge rehearsed for the Splint: but if the swelling be big, you must open the foot, and draw the swelling with a hot Iron, and anoint the place with tar and Turpentine boiled together, when the Charge falleth away, and not before. And if you think that the Horse is a little foundered, or hoof bound, than you may let him blood in the toe veins, and stop his feet with tar, Turpentine, and Hogs-grease with some Hemlockes or Arse-mart in it, boiled together seething hot, and renew it once in two days.  
The Quiter-bone is an ulcer in the foot, which runneth at a little hole with white matter, and in the bottom of the hole there lieth a gristle like a bone, therefore search it to the bottom, and fill the hole with Verdegrease, letting it remain so three days, then take it out, and if you see that it is not come clean away, stop the hole again with the same, and take away the hoof as far as you see it hollow, and wrap the sore with brown paper dipped in tar, turpentine, and hogs-grease beaten together after the bone is come away until it be whole.  
The sprain of the Back-Sinew is a very evil thing, yet take the oil of Spike, Venice turpentine, Comfry and Tu●som leaves, boil them together, and strain the ointment, then anoint the place with the fame once in two days for nine days, and most commonly this will help, but if it do not, you must let him blood, and lay a Charge upon it, as is showed in the Splint, but if his leg swell, it will be good to take up the shank vein; a little above the knee, and salt it, and that will assuage the swelling.  
The colts-evil is easily known, for that comes but in winter, by cold moist humours, therefore ride him into the water once a day, and that will cure him, but if he have his stones beaten by hard riding, or if they chance to swell by some strain which also may happen by covering a Mare, I advise you to take oil of Roses, Smallage, the herb called Rosa solis, which you shall find in boggy grounds, boil them in white wine vinegar and bathe the swelling with it, and it will help the horse with letting blood on the spur-veines and the neck, or you may launch the horse's sheath if need be for it may do good if it be much swelled.  
FOr Wounds or pricks in general, take cat's grease, Venice turpentine, Camomile, Tutsom leaves, Colts-foot, hog's grease, Roch-allum, boil them together, and strain them, and keep this Salve always by you; for it is good for any cut or prick; but you must remember always first to wash the sore with white wine vinegar and butter warm. This is a proved salve.  
For the Impostume in the head you must take the juice of willows, the juice of Camomile, the juice of a Pomegran●t, and some Linseed oil, boil these together, and milk-warm put it into the ears, and either stop them close, or sow them together for the space of twelve days: this also helpeth the worm in the head, or any deafness, it openeth the pores, and is a present remedy for any giddiness in the head.  
A very good oil to ripen any kind of Swelling or Knobs or wens. Take Linseed, or Hempseed, Pelletory, Smallage, Camomile, the roots of lilies, Hemlocks, spear-grass, garlic, Bears foot, Bores-grease or hog's grease, oil of Spike, and Pigeons dung; boil all these well together, so as they be like a plaster, then lay it on the wen or swelling once a day, for three days' space, and it will break; if not, launch it thorough the skin, for it will be ripe; then wash out all the filth with white wine vinegar and roch-allum together warm, anointing it with oil of turpentine and hogs-grease, until it be whole. This O●le may be used only to such swellings as are old and hard; for it will ripen any thing that it is laid unto, if it be not so hard as a bone.  
The Fistula every man knows, but few can cure it, yet by this Medicine, as is well known, I have healed many; which is thus to be applied: Take a pint of the best white wine vinegar, a pennyworth of roch-allum, an half pennyworth of green copperas, a pennyworth of honey, and a quarter of a pound of Dogs-grease, boil them together, until the copperas be dissolved, and open the Fistula on both sides the main, and keep the crest whole if you can; then wash the sore with this water once in two days, and if there be any bone corrupted it will scale it, and heal the sore. pr.  
This will also serve for the pole-evil as well as any Medicine else, with a little turpentine, hogs-grease, colts-soot, and touchwood leaves boiled together, and strained clear, that there be nothing in it; for I forbid all powders and lime that I have seen used, but no reason for it, save only through ignorance and use, no washing with chamber lie, nor any other water, but dry the sore well with a soft linen rag, or a piece of sponge, and then wash the sore with the water according as is directed, but use not your salve till it have almost done running.  
If your Horse be Wrenched on the loins or back, then take two pair of pasterns, and tie all his four legs together, then lay him upon good store of straw, and clap a sheepskin new taken from the sheep and dipped in brine upon his back, keeping it so for twelve days; then let him st●nd up, and if you stay him with ropes that he fall not, he may do well: but cut off three joints of his tail, and lay a Charge of Pitch, Rosin, and bowl armoniac, good and thick upon his back, and so let it lie till it fall away.  
The Falling of the hair is either with worms, or with the Mange; if it be with worms, let him blood in the tail vein, and wash his tail, or main, with strongly and bay-salt; but if it be the Mange, then must you take black soap, tar, brimstone, bay-salt, hogs-grease, and a little Tobacco boiled well together, and after that you have shaved off the scurf, then anoint the Horse with it good and warm once or twice at the most, and it will scale four days after, then may you anoint him with hogs-grease, and this will heal him with letting blood.  
The Horse that is Stisted cannot gather up his leg, but trails his toe on the ground: the Cure is thus, Put in the bone, and take up the skin with a pair of pincers, and burn a hole thorough it, anointing the place well with comfrey and butter boiled together, than side-span the other legs for three days, and this will cure him; but if he be bruised or strained, let him blood on the haunch vein, and blow and rowell the Horse, and anoint him with hog's grease and oil of Spike beaten together, and warm it in with some warm Iron.  
The Spavin is a Bunch in the pan of the Hock; if it be soft, we call it a Blood-Spavin, if hard, a Bone-Spavin; the cure for the Blood-Spavin is, Take up the vein, and draw the vein out, if the Spavin be big, at the nether place that you open, and salt the vein well, then lay on a Charge of pitch, rosin, bolearmoniac, mastic, and sanguis draconis, boiled all together, with some flocks; but if be a Bone-Spavin, you must lay a corasure to it, made of Euforbium, Cantharides, a little Mercury, white wine vinegar and oil of Spike beaten together: but shave off half the skin so far as the bunch goeth, and then clap it on like a plaster, tying up his head for the space of three hours, and when it comes off two days after anoint it with a little butter, and draw it with a hot Iron, then lay on the Charge before spoken of, letting it lie till it fall away of itself, which done, you must anoint it once in two days till it be whole; this will cure without fail: but if you lay the corasure on, you must not work the Horse, nor let him come in water for ten days.  
The curb lies under the Hock, therefore you must prick it with a flame, and when it hath bled well, then draw small lines with your hot Iron, like a broad arrow's head and lay the same Charge as you do for the Splint.  
The Puffing lies like wind in the gambrel place above the Hock, and if you let him blood in the thigh vein, laying the same Charge unto it as is prescribed for the curb, and fire him as you do the same, it is a present remedy.  
Malanders and Selenders lie in the bout of the knee▪ and in the Ham behind: this Sorance is always scabbed, and the more you rub it, the worse it is, if you take not the right course; therefore I advise you to shave all the scurf off his legs, so far as it goeth, with a hot Iron, but take heed that the Iron be not too hot, but so as it may scald the scurf off; and than take a little black soap, and bay-salt, and anoint the place with it once in two days for a week, and then take soap, and butter, and bowl armoniac, mixed well together, and anoint the place until it be whole.  
The Tent in a horse's leg, is when the nutriment of the sinews falls under the f●ter lock, which will make a Horse lame; it is big and soft, and must be thus cured: Strike it with a flame in the middle of the soft place, and it will spout out like the white of an egg, then put a little salt and anoint all the feter-lock with a salve made of Comfrey, tursome leaves, and butter, giving him twelve days' rest, and then you may use him again.  
Wind galls are above the Fetter-lock, and they are not to be opened anywhere, but as the Tent is; foregarter the Horse with a string, and lap the leg from the knee or hock downward, for this Sorance belongeth to all four legs, and they are cured all alike: and you shall see the windgalls come into the same place that the Tent doth, and the same receipt serveth; if not, than you must draw with a hot Iron small races, croswaies, on both sides of the legs, and lay the Charge rehearsed for the Splint and Spavin, and it will cure him.  
The pains is an evil humour in the body, therefore it is good to trot your Horse till he begin to sweat, then let him blood on both sides of the neck, and take up the haunch veins, and give the same drink that is prescribed for the Liver and spleen, washing his legs once in two days with this water compounded of white Wine vinegar, white copperas, green copperas, brimstone, butter, and bay-salt boiled together, and afterwards anoint it with cream.  
A Horse may be foundered diverse ways: either in the feet, or in the legs, or in the body; if he be foundered in the body, his hair will stare, and if you strike him on his ribs, they will sound like an empty barrel, and he will go crowdling all four together, and when he is too sore heated, and cool too suddenly, than he will be as though his back were broke, and cannot stand, and then he is most commonly past cure: but if he can stand and go, then make a Charge of oil of Spike, pigeon's dung, and salt, boiled together, and rub it into his back and loins, covering him with a new Sheep skin with the wool upon it warm, and make a drink of sack, or strong ale, Isop, mallows, smallage, fennel, some of a Brionetree-root, treacle, honey, tar, goose grease, or sine lard, boil all these together, and give it the Horse to drink once a day for three days, and in the afternoons a Mesh of malt, and let him blood in the neck, legs, haunch veins, and tail, each place a little: If he be foundered in the feet, pare them thin, and let them bleed in the toes well, then stop up his feet with hogs-grease, and wheat bran, and anoint them with tar, turpentine, hemlocks, and nettles boiled together, and this will cure him.  
A good way to staunch blood in any part. If the Horse bleed after letting blood in any vein, you may take a stick and cleave it half way, so as it may clip the skin together, and put a little bolearmoniac between for a while, and it will stay; or if the wound be big, you may take some of the Horses own dung and salt mingled together, and bind it to the wound, letting it lie for the space of twelve hours after, and then there is no danger; or you may take nettles and salt beaten together, or the Soot or scraping of the out side of a kettle, or hogs-dung, for any of all these things will stay bleeding.  
A very good Medicine for the Biting of a Mad dog. First, get some Sweet-brier tree bark, and betony, beaten to powder, and running water and bay-salt boiled together, and give it the Horse, or sheep, or Dog, or Hog to drink, and wash the place well that is bit with the water good and hot; and this will help, if you let blood in the roof of the mouth. Proved.  
If a Horse, or any other Beast be stung or bitten with an Adder, Snake, or any kind of venomous creature, you may take new milk, and wash the place and then take rotten eggs, soot, fresh butter, turpentine, bay salt, and bolearmoniac, beaten small and mingled well together, then launch the place, and anoint it with the salve, giving your Horse, or other beast, wine and treacle lukewarm to drink: and when the venom is out, anoint the place with Salet oil and turpentine beaten together, once in two days, until it be whole.   

A readvertisement to the Reader.  
Gentle Reader.  
SOme have writ that a Horse hath no brain, nor Milt, which I deny; Others have affirmed, that a Horse may have the Mourning of the Chine, which I deny also; for the Chine and brain join together: And if the brain should wast, the Horse cannot live. For this cause, and to prevent the like error, from the outward Sorances and Diseases commonly incident to Horses (whereof I have before treated, and explained their several Cures) I proceed to the Inward Grievances, and their Remedies: For the more plain and easy understanding of which, I have laid open every part, Bone, or Sinew, belonging to a Horse, so that every man, though but of a mean capacity, may both find out the cause of any Disease, and the way to Cure it, by those Medicines which I have here prescribed, and by mine own Expeience often proved, being such things as with ease are commonly to be had in most Gardens, or almost in every Grocers and apothecary's Shop. And now l advise you to be very careful in making a true compound of every drink or Medicine which you shall have occasion to use, both for your own profit and my credit; for I have left the quantity to your own discretion, that you may apply it according to the constitution of your horse's body, since some are able to bear far more than others. As also, although many be fearful to let Blood at some times, yet I wish you upon any great occasion to defer no time at all, but to do it speedily, otherwise I hold it fit to observe the moon, the temper of the air, and time of the day; for a temperate air is very good to undertake any Cure in, either inward or outward. And so for your instructions by the Anatomy here prefixed (for it is necessary that every Farrier should know not only the office, but the number of all the Bones & smallest gristles or sinews in every part of the Horse) I have laid open the Horse, and placed the letter A, over his Head, which shows▪ how the Eyes hang to the brains; as as when he is living (with other letters to describe the entrails, and other members as they lie in order in the Horse.)  
So as A signifies the Eyes, B signifies the brain, C C the Teeth, D the Windpipe, E the Gullet, F F the Lights, G the Heart, H the Liver, I the Milt, K the Maw, L the Guts, M the kidneys, N the spleen, O the Bladder, P the Dock, Q the Gall, R R the midriff.  
As also I have set figures upon every joint, according to the number of the Bones therein contained;  
As for Example.  
The Figure of 5. next to the brain, specifies five Bones in the Head and the two figures of 20. upon each side of the Head, so many Teeth: and so of the rest according to their places; for the number of sinews likewise, I have placed the figures on the outside of the Horse, with the letter S. to distinguish them from the Bones. And thus wishing thee good success in all the Cures that you take in hand, I rest  
Your Friend, R. B.   

The true Anatomy and Inside of a Horse.   diagram of the anatomy of a horse 
FIrst, I find that in the Head there breed many Sicknesses, as the Falling evil, the Staggers, the Sleeping evil, the frenzy, the Pofie, and giddiness: besides most Farriers say, that the Moone-eyes are a sore Disease in the Head.  
The Falling evil is a stopping of the spirits, veins, arteries, and pores, depriving the Horse of his sense, as it doth a man, so that he lieth as it were dead for a time, yet he may be thus cured. Let him blood on both sides of the neck, and in the mouth, and in the nose, then take oil of turpentine, ale cost, fennel, camomile, and peony roots boiled in oil, then strain it, and put the oil in his ears, and either sow or tie them, that it come not out: and boil the same herb in strong ale giving it the Horse to drink three mornings, and it will help him: This is also good for giddiness, or the palsy, or any Quivering or shaking. proved.  
The Staggers is a pleurisy of blood throughout the whole body, and infumes the senses of the Horse, so that he can neither stand nor go without staggering, his feeling is taken away, his sight grows dim, and he will run against walls and hedges, staying himself on his head; and if he be far gone, he will sleep and start as though he were in a dream: the Cure whereof, as I have found by experience, is thus. Let him blood in the neck, nose, eyes, and mouth, and if you see that he looks yellow, than it is a sign that the yellows are come upon him too, therefore to use the cure for both it is not amiss: then if his ears be cold, take aquavitae and salt, and put it into his ears, and tie them for twelve hours; but if you can get no aquavitae, take water and salt, which will do well, then launch the skin in his forehead, and open it two inches, and put in garlic, and anoint the outside with hog's grease; which done, you must make a drink for him of tansy, turmerick, long pepper, grains, aniseed, liquorish, and strong ale, boiled well together, and milk warm give it the horse stirring him up and down a good space; and if he live but six hours after his dressing there is likely no danger: and then you must give him a Mesh of malt twice a day, for four or five days after. This serveth for the Staggers and yellows both, if you let him blood in the tail three days after you have blooded him in the forepart. proved.  
The Sleeping evil is an infection of the blood, and black choler taken by eating mildewed feeding, for the horse will scour, and hang down his head, sleeping in the manger, and his mouth will be hot as fire, therefore you shall take blood from him in the nose, and under the eyes, and mouth, in the nose once in two days for a week with a naule, and make a Drink of bayeberies, grains, mustardseed, marigold seed, anniseeds, liquorish, some treacle, butter, and turmeric, boiled together in beer or ale, and give it the horse to drink milk-warm, and it will cure him. proved.  
A Horse that is Taken, or as some call it frenzy, for they differ not much at the first, and he standeth still not greatly willing to move nor to eat nor drink, but of a sudden he will gape and bite, and to the farrier's judgement is no foul horse; the cure of this disease is thus: cord the horse about the neck, and the veins under the ears will rise, then let them blood in the nose, and two days after in the haunch veins, and tail, and make this drink with mallows, smallage, fennel, parsley, bay-berries, grains, and treacle, boil them in beer or ale, and give it him milkwarme, then put some of that oil rehearsed in the Falling evil into his ears. This is a good way and proved.  
The posy is a cold congealed humour in the head, and appears to me, as it were a settling of choler in the pores, it is known by the horses eyes running yellow goul, and underneath or within the ball of the eye you shall see at certain times of the moon as it were yellow matter, and then some Farriers say that he is moon-eyed; true it is; for till the grief be cured, the horse will be so, and will not thrive because he sleeps in pain: for the cure whereof, you shall take blood under his eyes, and in the nose, and palla● of the mouth, and neck, perfuming his head with frankincense, brimstone, and tobacco, upon coals, and put into his ears oil of Rue, and oil of camomile, beaten together, then give him the same drink as you do for the sleeping-evil, and this will cure him, being used every morning for five mornings.  
The Canker in the mouth is when the lips and tongue is full of blisters, and raw: it comes by evil seed, as gritty hay, or raw provender, or eating among worms castings, or licking earth: the cure is thus; make a drink of Rue, Isop, brimstone, savin, roch-allum, and bolearmoniac, boiled well together, in beer, and give it the horse, then let him blood in the roof of the mouth, and the next morning wash his mouth with white wine vinegar, roch alum, and salt once, and this will cure him. Proved.  
Of the Glanders, Strangullion, and mourning of the Chine. I find that the Strangles at the first is a heat and a cold congealed in young horses, having moist bodies, and then it groweth to incarnate and break in matter, and the kirnels under the horse's tongue between the jaws will swell; and then if it break and vanish away within a reasonable time by such meats and drinks as I have prescribed in the outward Sorances, it may do well: but if not, than it is the Glanders, or the Mourning of the Chine, as some call it, but I think it may more fitly be called the Consumption of the Lights, for I for my part could never find it otherwise: therefore according to my experience I will prescribe the best remedy that ever I could find. Take oil of turpentine, oil of turmeric, fine hog's lard, goose-grease, treacle, sugar candy, honey, onions, camomile, smallage, the wild vine root, anniseeds, liquorish, and fennel seeds, beat them well together, and boil them, then strain the oil, and give it the horse every other morning in his nose, for nine days, and ride him after it for two hours, then give him a mesh of malt always, during the said nine days: which done, let him have comfrey, colts-foot, venecricke, bayeberies, grains, and wheat bran all in powder amongst his provender during the space of six weeks after, and if he be curable this will help him.  
The Pursicke, or shortness of breath, comes always after an extreme cold, or upon the settling of some great sickness, causing the conduits or pipes of the Lights to be straight, or else there may be some small conduit or pipe broken, and so the horse coffeth dry, and often, and fetcheth his wind thick; the best cure therefore is to take syrup of liquorish, and new milk from the cow, with treacle, and sugar-candy; Some will give balls made of Venice turpentine, tar, lard, rosemary, elecampany, anniseeds, liquorish, tansy, lungwort, and sporage, which is good, with a little oil put in his nostrils after it, and so to ride him fair and gently, feeding him with moist meat, and he may do well again.  
The Garget in Horses, and the Garget in Oxen proceed both of one cause, yet are not cured both alike, although there be no great difference: this disease if not looked unto may grow to the murrain or Pestilence either in beast or horse; and therefore I will show you the causes which first breed it. Where they keep cattle low and poor in winter, and have rank feeding in summer, and standing water which they stale in, having no spring in it to refresh the same; and so the blood being not good at the first time of the year, the rank feeding, and the unwholesome water, infecteth the whole substance of the beast, that is, blood, choler, phlegm, black choler, nay breath and all, and then cometh the murrain and pestilence: at the first it may swell in the breast, throat, lips, or under the ears or eyes, and they that die of it are always full of jelly at the heart and lights of all colours: the Cure for the Garget I have already showed in the outward Sorances; but this is how to prevent the murrain or pestilence: take Rue, wormwood, garlic, pelletory, mug-wort, marigolds, red dock-roots, tansy, eldern bark or berries, turmeric, bayeberies, grains, cuminseed, aniseed, liquorish, long pepper, venecricke, treacle new tar, some bears foot, then beat them together, and boil them in beer with some bay salt among them, then strain them thorough a cloth, and every morning when your cattle are infected give a reasonable quantity to each, and let them blood in the neck and mouth, or for your horse you may boil a reasonable quantity in wine, and give it him. This is an approved medicine, besides it purgeth the body for all diseases, as well as any medicine that can be found, and you shall not need any presume, if you give it in the morning.  
For Vomiting and worms. Because I have spoken of water and feeding not fit for cattle, I will now show you how to stay the vomiting of any unwholesome meat, drink, or any thing that your horse shall swallow, which will appear quickly: take ale cost, savin, holy thistle, treacle and strong ale or beer, boil them together, and put in some salad oil, and give it him: this is also good for the bots or small worms, if you prick him in the mouth.  
The Diseases in the liver, gall, and spleen. I find that if the liver be inflamed with any hot blood, or the gall be too full of choler, than the spleen cannot discharge his office, which is easily perceived; for the horse will be weary, dull, and heavy, hot and faint, and commonly full of choler in the mouth and eyes, his veins will swell, and if it be not prevented, it will grow to the yellows, of which I have spoken in the Staggers, and now will show you a very good way: Take liverwort, elder pill, or barbery pill, turmeric, cuminseed, venecricke, fennellseed, tansy, smallage, anniseeds, liquorish, ivy berries, pelletory, parsley seed, coleander seeds, treacle, sugar candy, and boil these in wine, then strain them, and give it the horse to drink: this is good to convert choler, it comforts the heart, it helps the colic also, if you put in the roots of Filippendula; but let the horse blood in both sides of the neck and mouth and nose, and it will cure him. proved.  
The dropsy or Tenpen, is a swelling in the belly, or may fall into his legs, and break out in watery humours like the pains, which by continuance it will grow unto; therefore to prevent it, after you have rid him or run him till he sweat, which will cause the watery humours to fly up into his body again, while he is warm, let him blood on both sides of the neck, and in the mouth, then open the skin between his forelegs, raising it two inches long, and as much in the hinder part of the belly, and put some of the herb called Seter-wort or beares-foot into the holes, and that will draw the evil water away, if you let it stay in 4 or 5 days, giving the horse the same drink that is prescribed for the Liver and spleen, and when the holes are open, use hogs-grease to anoint them withal, trotting him up and down every day, and rubbing his body and legs, and he may do well, if you bathe his legs with vinegar and salt very hot.  
THe Golden water or ointment for the eyes is thus compounded; take the Flowers of marigolds and eybright, daisies of the biggest sort, the flowers of rosemary and saladine, the inward bark of the palmtree, some saffron, the flowers of waterlilies, and the flowers of the bay tree, distil these all together, and keep it by you in a bottle, that when your horses eyes begin to look yellow or green like the rainbow, you may put some of this water into his ears warm, and stop it in four or five days, washing his eyes with some of the water likewise; and then to make his eyes comfortable, take fresh goose-grease, and the marrow of cat's bones, and roast a Lampre, or eel, reserving the fat that drippeth in a clean dish, than put some rurmericke unto it, and boil them well together, then put it into a pot, and keep it till you have need, but you must gather the flowers in May or June, and the water will keep until the next year, if you put some sugar-candy in it. The goodness of this Receipt cannot be enough valued; but you must remember when your horse is grieved to let him blood in the nose with a naule, that he may bleed well.  
The Strangullion or sqinsy, is an inflammation of the throat and tongue, so that it is ready to stop the horse's wind, and must be thus cured; Let him blood in the plate-vein, and wash his mouth with hot vinegar and salt, then take leeks, alexander, honey, and bedlam, boil them in wine, and give it the horse at the nose and mouth, anointing the swelling with dogs dung and honey, then let him blood in the mouth, and give him no cold water, but let him have pelletory to chew in his mouth, which will make the rheum void away, or if he cannot chew, put some in his drink, and as soon as the swelling is assuaged, anoint the horse with salad oil, and he will do well again. proved.  
The Bloody flux, or Pissing blood, some hold to proceed from the nature of the ground where the Horse goeth, or else by a strain, for the cure, therefore take roch-allum, bowl armoniac, solder-wood, wormwood, polepodium, and salt, stamp the herbs, or dry them to powder, and give it him in new milk two mornings: and this will cure him, if you let him blood in the mouth. proved.  
The Mattering of the yard, and the Shedding of the Seed, which comes in covering time most commonly, is cured by washing his yard with white wine vinegar, roch-allum, and butter, and giving this drink, in red wine, comfrey, bolearmoniac, and sugar boiled together: Some will give balls made of venice turpentine, wheat flower, and venecricke, every morning for four or five mornings, and this will cure, as hath been well proved.  
Incording or Bursting may come by leaping, or by stopping the Horse too suddenly: therefore according to my experience, I advise you, if his guts, or the Kell be fallen down, tie all his four feet together, and with warm milk bathe the place, so that it may be gentle, then work the gu● into his place again, and tie the stones gently with a broad string, so as you may put your singer between, bathing him with vinegar, bolearmoniac, salt, and butter, once a day, and give him a drink made of strong ale or claret wine, comfrey, mastic, and stone pitch; and if it be where you can make a truss for him, when you have put in the gut, you may lay a Charge on, and bind it up with the truss: make the charge of rosin, pitch, mastic, bolearmoniac, and some turpentine; they may fall in some place, where you may cut the skin a handful beside the place, and put in the guts, and then sow up the rim of the belly with a needle full of silk, you must take good hold, but not too thick stirches, nor draw it too hard, yet be sure to make it fast, and anoint the place with venice turpentine, tutsome leaves, and dog's grease boiled and strained, but be sure to keep the wind from it for six days, and afterwards put some hogs-grease in your salve. This way I have cured diverse cattle, both horses, oxen, and others. proved.  
The Fashions may come by an inward cause as well as an outward; for if it begin in the breast, or in the groin, or cod, it is a sign that it proceds from some inward defect, and then the knobs will be big and hard like carbunkles, therefore you shall make a drink of Rue, or as some call it, herb grass, tansy, the root of the w●lde vine, Isop, walnut tree bark, turmeric, cuminseed, smallage, treacle, and bay-salt boiled together in beer or ale, and give it the horse to drink for three mornings together, then let him blood in the neck, and in those veins next the place that is infected, and launch the knobs, anointing them with black soap, tar, and bay salt, once in two days: and this will help him without fail. proved.  
The disease of the womb of the Mare, called the Weather, is when the bag or nature cometh out, and she is in great pain, therefore take white wine vinegar and roch-allum warm, and wash the nature bag that cometh out, then put it in again, then make a drink of peach-stone kirnels, comfrey, nutmegs, and cinnamon, all beaten to powder, and boiled in milk or ale, and give it the Mare twice in a day, and it will help her proved.  
The Hungry evil, and Consumption of the Flesh, is when the horse doth eat his meat fast and greedily, and yet prospers not with it but still grows leaner, which I think doth proceed from some evil habit in the body, although some Farriers do not perceive the cause; therefore I advise you to give your horse some Rosemary, marigold seed, or diapanta, sage, savin, earth-nuts, or pig-nuts, oranges and lemons steeped in vinegar three days, and some eggs steeped with them, and stopped close, till the eggshells be as soft as the orange, then take out the eggs and the oranges whole, and put into the vinegar a quartern of sugar-candy, treacle, diapanta, savin, sage, nuts, boil them together, and milk-warm give it the horse in the morning, and let him have the eggs, and oranges, after the drink, riding him for two hours after it, then give him sod beans and pease for the space of six days, and a little of this drink every morning, and it will cause his flesh to rise again, if you let him blood in the mouth.  
A very good medicine, to take either in wine or beer, against the Fever, palsy, or Convulsion of the sinews, or to anoint the body or sinews withal in time of numbness or stiffness: Take Galbanum, castoreum, bedlam, pepper, amoniacum, laudanum dissolved in salad oil, bayeberies, grains, Rue, Isop, tansy, anniseeds, liquorish, oil of turpentine, Fox-grease, or badgers-grease, tar, stone-pitch, hog's grease, take of these things an equal quantity, and beat them to powder small, and boil them together, then give the horse part in wine, and anoint his body and legs with part, warming it in with hot coals in a pan, then keep him warm, and let him stand dry, and either ride or walk him once or twice a day; giving him no cold water for nine days' space, but rubbing his body and legs well: and as soon as you see him begin to use his legs, you may let him blood in all four a little, anointing him all over with oil of copperas, and by this means the horse may recover his former strength and nimbleness again, as hath been proved.  
Balls to give horses, when you misdoubt their grease to be over heated by too hard riding: Take honey, fine hog's lard, the herb called Earsene tobacco, savin, Rue, the tops of stocke-gilliflowers, some Isop, camomile, and smallage, shred the herbs small, or beat them in a mortar, then temper the honey and lard with them, or boil them in sack, and give it the horse to drink: this will cause the horse to scour out the grease, and cleanseth his guts from all kind of worms. proved.  
To help your horse if you misdoubt he hath eaten or drunk any poison: Take betony, plantain, and harts-horn, scrape it small, and boil it in milk, and when you have made it blood warm, put in some salad oil, venice turpentine, and fine hog's lard or hog's grease, beaten well together before you put it in the milk, and this will qualify the poison, and the horse will do well again. proved.  
Balls to keep your horse in breath and health fit for hunting: first take Rosemary and marigold-seed, anniseeds, and liquorish, comfrey roots, colts-foot, cardus, and fennel roots all dried to powder, with frankincense, myrrh, cuminseed, turmeric, treacle, sugat-candy, & butter, temper all these well together, and give them to the horse in the morning when you ride him forth, before you water him, and then you may ride him two or three hours, or till your occasion serveth in reasonable time to come in: for the longer you ride him after it, the better it is for him.  
If at any time your Horse or ox cannot Vent, give him this glister, take tobacco and honey, beating it together in a mortar, and when it is well mixed put some salad oil unto it, and some hogs-grease, then milk-warm put it in his fundament with a straight horn, and let one that hath a small hand stir it gently up and down in his body, and it will help him presently. proved.  
For a horse that cannot Stale, take a small twig made very smooth, and anoint it with oil, then pull out his yard, and thrust the twig up in his bladder, and that will give him vent; which done, you shall give a drink made of fennel seed, or the root of Filippendula, camomile, smallage, anniseeds, liquorish, and some ordinary horse-spice, which you usually buy at the mercers' shops, boiled all well together in white wine or beer, and this will help the horse, but you must stir him up and down a good space after.  
A very good plaster for Broken bones, if the skin be not broke. Take the whites of eggs, bolearmoniac, red lead, and salt, beat them together, and role up the place for three days, then open it, and if the bone begins to sodder together, and not swell, dress it as before, but if it swell, wash the place well with wine vinegar and salt: and if the bones be broke thorough the skin, you must mix black soap and bowl armoniac together, and lay on the outside, and make a salve to dress the wound with of Cats-grease, hogs-grease, venice turpentine, tutsome leaves, comfrey leaves, and colts-foot, boiled all together and strained, and therewith anoint the sore places, putting some into the wound with a feather, then make an open place between the Splints, that the corruption may run away, and when it is whole, lay on a Charge of pitch, rofin, mastic, bolearmoniac and red lead; and swath up the place; and if you let him run at grass but one March after, the bone will grow as strong as ever it was. proved.   

Some never failing Medicines, for certain mortal Diseases and other griefs incident to Men, Women, Children, or other Creatures.  
TAke three pints of malmesy, or for want thereof good Muskadine, boil therein one handful of Sage, one handful of Rue, being shred small, till a pint be wasted, then strain it, and set it over the fire again, putting thereto one penny worth of Long Pepper, half an ounce of Ginger, a quarter of an ounce of Nutmegs, all beaten together; then let it boil again a little. This done, take it from the fire and put to it a quarter of a pint of strong Angelica water, or good Aquavitae, a quarter of an ounce of Mythridate, a quarter of a pint of treacle, mingle all together, stir it till it be cold, then put it into a glass close stopped, and shake the glass when you take it out for your use.  
Also it hath been tried to be specially good for the cure of a quartan Ague.  
Take of it for a Man or woman three spoonfuls, for a Child one blood-warm, let them be well sweated for an hour or thereabouts; as their strength will bear.  
This medicine is good against the Plague either to prevent or to cure it, but it is also good against those diseases that are kin to the Plague, and particularly it hath cured multitudes that have been sick of this malignant Fever, which of late hath been so common; it having a special quality to draw all infection from the heart.  
A Remedy for the pleurisy when it is past Blood-letting in which case it is commonly mortal. TAke an Apple and cut off the top for a cover and pick out the co●r, then fill the hollow place with white Frankincense, put it on a shovel by the fire, and put the cover upon it, then roast it till it be soft round, than put it into a saucer and bruise it altogether till it be well mixed, than put so much Sugar to it that will make it savoury, let the party eat it. This will drive away the putrefaction from the Lungs and preserve the party.  
An assured Medicine for to cure the biting of a mad Dog. TAke a good handful of betony, and a handful of wild Sage, and a handful of night Shade, and of fair Running water a pint; stamp the herbs and strain them therewith, put thereto a penny worth of treacle, or the weight of three pence of Mithridate, give it to the patient to drink two or three mornings.  
This Medicine is good for Cattle, and for Dogs bitten with a mad Dog, and hath been upon occasion tried to be effectual without Mithridate or treacle, putting a handful of Rue with the other herbs, and using ordinary Garden Sage where the other is not to be had; the herbs boiled in milk and strained, and six spoonful given at a time.   
FINIS.  

A Table of the several Diseases contained in this book in each Page, according to the Folio.  

IN the Epistle to the Reader I begin with a deformed member in the Head, from the outward and inward Grievances in a Horse.  
A most exact and speedy way of Curing all Sorances and Diseases incident to Horses, Folio, 1.  
For the Canker in the Nose, and how to cure it, ibid.  
For the Lampers, ibid.  
For the Fives with the cure, ibid.  
The Gare and what it is, Folio, 3.  
For the farsy, and its cure, folio, 4.  
The Splint and how cured, ibid.  
For the ringbones and the cure, Folio, 5.  
The Quiter-bone is an ulcer in the foot, ibid.  
The sprain of the back sinew, ibid.  
For Wounds or pricks in general, Folio, 6.  
For the Impostume in the Head, ibid.  
To ripen any kind of Swelling or Knob, Folio, 7.  
The Fistula and the Cure, ibid.  
For the pole-evil, Folio, 8.  
If your Horse be Wrenched, ibid.  
The Falling of the hair, ibid.  
For a Horse that is Stifled, Folio, 9  
The Spavin is of two kinds, the Blood-Spavin and the bone-Spavin. ibid.  
The Puffing, Malenders and Selenders lie in the bout of the Knee, and in the Him behind, Folio, 10.  
The Tent in a horse's Leg, ibid.  
Windgalls are above the Fetter-lock, ibid.  
The pains is an evil humour in the body, Folio, 11.  
A Horse may be Poundered divers ways, ibid.  
A good way to Stanoh blood in any part, Folio, 12.  
A good medicine for the Biting of a Mad Dog, ibid.  
If a Horse be Bitten or Stung, ibid.   

A readvertisement to the Reader, with the Anatomy of the inside of the horse; Folio 15.  
For the Falling evil what it is, ibid.  
For the Staggers what it is, Folio, 16.  
For the sleeping-evil. Folio▪ 17.  
For a Horse that is Taken, called the frenzy, ibid.  
The posy what it is, ibid.  
For the Glanders, Strangullion▪ and mourning of the Chine, ibid.  
For the shortness of Breath, Folio, 19  
For the Garget in Horses, Folio, 20.  
For worms in Horses, Folio, 21.  
For the dropsy or Tenpen, Folio, 22.  
The Strangullion or squinsy, Folio, 23.  
The Bloody flux or Pissing of Blood, ibid.  
For the Mattering of the Yard, Folio, 24.  
For Incording or Bursting, ibid.  
The Hungry evil and Consumption of the flesh, Folio, 25.  
Balls to give a horse when he is overheated. Folio, 27.  
Balls to keep your horse in breath for Hunting. ibid.  
For a horse that cannot Stale, Folio, 28.  
A very good plaster for broken bones, ibid.   

Some never failing Medicines for certain mortal Diseases. incident to Men, Women and Children, and other Creatures. Folio, 29.  
A Remedy for the pleurisy, when it is past Blood-leting. Folio, 30.  
To cure the biting of a Mad Dog. ibid.