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
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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.

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    The T A BL E of the Firft Book, con¬ taining all Cures PhyficaL Atural Compofitim of Horfes Bodies. Page i. Four Elements> their Firtues and Operations. ibid. Temper aments, their fede¬ ral kinds, and bow far they extend in Horfes. p. Of Hu¬ mour to what end they ferve p. 6. Of Members, their feveral kinds P- 7* Of Powers, how a Horfes Body is governed by them p, 9. Acti¬ ons or Operations, whereto they belong ibid. Of Spirits, in what Part of the Horfes Body they remain 11. The Six things not Natural, hew they Profit, and hurt ibid. Of Horfes Completion p. 24, Inward Sick* nejfes, the Caufes and feveral kinds 16. The Signs of Sicknef, of what Nature it confiAeth p. 17. Obfervations in the Phyficking of Horfes p, 21. Of the Urine, and Excrements of a Horfe p. 22. Fevers in Gene¬ ral, their divers kinds p. 24, The Quotidian, or every days Fever, the Cure p. 260 The Tertian Fever p. 27. The Quartan Fever p. 28 The Fever continual ibid. Ihe HeBick Fever p. 29. The Fever in Autumn, or the Fall of the Leaf ibid. The Fever in the Summer p. 30. The Fever in the Winter ibid. The Fever by Surfeit of Meat only p. 31, Fevers extraordinary, of Pefiilent Fevers ibid. The Plague and PefiHence in Horfes p, 32. The Fever accidental p. 33. A General, certain, and approved Cure for all Fevers and Sicknejfes ibid. The Difeafes in the Head p. 34. Of Head ach, or pain in the Head p. 35'. The Frenzy, and Madnefs in a Horfe ibid. The Sleeping Evil or Lethargy in a Horfe p. 36* Of a Horfe that is taken, or Shrow-running p. 37. The Staggers p. 38. The Falling Evil p. 40. The Night-Mare p. 41. The Apoplexy, or Valfie p. 42. Thegeneral Cramps, or Convulfion of Sinews p. 43. The Cold, or PoZjC in the Head p. 44. How to take away any Cold, Poze$ or Ratling in the Head p. 46. The Perfection and befi of Medicines for Poze or Cold ibid. Of a Horfe that is Hide-Bound p, 47. The Gian ders p. 48. Medicines without fail, that Cure any Glanders p. ^2. The Mourning of the Chine ibid. A Certain approved Medicine, to Cure] High Running Glanders, &c. J4. The Cough ibid. The inward, or wet Cough p. y6. The Dry Cough p. 57. Medicines for any Cold, dry Cough, Jhortnefs of Breath, &c. p. 59. Medicines for a dry Cough, p.' 60. Of Frettized, Broken, and Rotten Lungs ibid. Of Putrified or Rotten Lungs p. 6 r. Shortnefs of Breath, or Pur finefs ibid. The Bro¬ ken-winded, Purfe-fick Horfe p, 63* The dry Malady ©r Confumption P* 6p.it