Markham's master-piece containing all knowledge belonging to the smith, farrier, or horse-leach, touching the curing all diseases in horses. Drawn with great pains from approved experience, and the publick practice of the best horse-marshals in Christendom. Divided into two books. The I. containing cures physical : The II. all cures chirurgical. Together with the nature, use, and quality of every simple mentioned through the whole work. Now the sixteenth time printed, corrected, and augmented, with above thirty new chapters, and forty new medicines heretofore never publish'd . To which is added, the exactest receipts for curing all diseases in oxen, cows, sheep, hogs, goats, dogs, and all smaller cattle. Also the compleat jockey ; containing methods for the training horses up for racing ... To which is added ... directions to preserve all sorts of cattle, from all manner of diseases ... / [Gervase Markham].
- Gervase Markham
- Date:
- 1703
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Markham's master-piece containing all knowledge belonging to the smith, farrier, or horse-leach, touching the curing all diseases in horses. Drawn with great pains from approved experience, and the publick practice of the best horse-marshals in Christendom. Divided into two books. The I. containing cures physical : The II. all cures chirurgical. Together with the nature, use, and quality of every simple mentioned through the whole work. Now the sixteenth time printed, corrected, and augmented, with above thirty new chapters, and forty new medicines heretofore never publish'd . To which is added, the exactest receipts for curing all diseases in oxen, cows, sheep, hogs, goats, dogs, and all smaller cattle. Also the compleat jockey ; containing methods for the training horses up for racing ... To which is added ... directions to preserve all sorts of cattle, from all manner of diseases ... / [Gervase Markham]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
![I Lib. 1. Of Cures Phyfical, 9'1 nefs, Lax, Bloody.flux, and Worms of divers kinds. Now for the Cholick, it is a grievous and tormenting pain in the great Gut or Bag, which becaufe it is very large and fpacious, and full of empty places, it is the more apt to receive divers offenfive matters, which do breed divers Infirmities, efpecially Wind, which finding no ready paiTapc out, maketh the Body, as it were, fwell, and offendeth both the fio- mach and other inward Members. This Difeafe doth not fo much aPPff ’rn th,2 Stable, as abroad in Travel, and the Signs are thefe : the Horfe yvill often offer to Bale, but cannot; he will ftrike at his bel¬ ly with his hinder foot, and many times-fiamp; he willferfake his Meat, and towards his Flank you (ball fee his Belly appear more full than ordinary, and he will defire to lie down and wallow. The Cu e hereof, according to the moftantient Farriers, is, only to give him'a Chfter made either of Wild Cucumbers, or elfe of Hens dung NT trum, and ftrong Vinegar, the manner whereof you (hall fee in the Chapter of Cltfiers, and after the Clifter, labour him. Others ufe to give the Horfe the Urine of a Child to drink, or a xi1 U • Soap andl Salt water. Others ufe to give him five drams of Myrrh in good Wine and then gallop him gently thereupon. O hers ufe to give him Stallage and Parfiey with his Provender : and then to travel him tin he fweat. But for my own part, I hold it bed to take a quart of Malmfey, of Cloves, Pepper, Cinnamon, of each half an ounce, of. Sugar half a quartern, and-,give it the Horfe luke¬ warm, and then ride him at leaft an hour after; but before you Ride him anoint all his Flanks with Oil de Bay, or Oil of Spike. Now if dung’ you Rake him, and if rv’ - n °rCe ]mi Cr dung> hy thmfting into his Fundament a Pi1 d C^1°n lagged crofs ways, that the tickling of the Juice may inforce Ordure: And by no means, for 4 or * days, let him drink whnSlT5 x°;eat.any G^pr green Corn, bm keep him upon wholeiome dry Meat in a warm Stable. CHAP. LXXV. Of the Belly-Achy or fretting in the Belly. *«>«!«• Cholick, there is alfo another grievous Pain in the j~ which Farriers call the Belly-ach, or Fretting in the Bel¬ ly ; and it proceedeth either from eating of green Pulfe, when it grows ?ndie, ?!!-Undh°r r3W UndrTied Peafe> B«ns or Oats, or elfe when P r. ,n« Humours, or Inflammations, or abundance of grofi matter is gotten between the great Gut and the Panicle. The Signs are, much wallowing, great groaning, and often ftriking at his Belly, and gnawing upon the Manger. The Cure, according to the Opinion of - ; feme](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30510843_0107.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
