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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    and a little Dialthea, then take it off the Fire, and make of it a Plaifter, and lay it to the fore, fuffering the Horfe to drink no cold Water : after the fore is broken, lay Bran fteept in Wine unto it, till it be whole. Others ufe to cut the Kernels out between the Jaws, and then to wafh the fore with Butter and Beer, giving the Horfe to drink new milk and garlick, and the juice of the leaves of Birch, or in Winter the Bark of Birch, or elfe to anoint it with Tar and Oil till it be whole. Now, for mine own part, the beft Cure that ever I found for the Strangle, was this. As foon as I found the fwelling begin to arife between his Chaps, to take a Wax Candle, and holding it under theHorfe’s Chaps, dole un¬ to the Swelling, burn it fo long till you can fee the Skin be burnt through, fo that you may as it were raife it from the fleih; that • done, you fhall lay unto it, either wet Hay or wet Horfe-Litter, and that will ripen it, and make it break, then lay a Plaifter unto it only of Shooe-Makers Wax, and that will both draw and heal it. Now if it break inward, and will not break outward, and fo avoideth only at his Nofe, then you fhall twice or thrice every day, perfume his head by burning under his Noftrils, either Frankincenfe or Maftick, or elfe by putting a hot coal into wet Hay, and fo making the Smoke thereof to afcend up into the Horfe’s head j or elfe to blow the Pow¬ der of Euforbium with a Quill into his Nofe; and fb note, that what- foever cureth the Vives, cureth the Strangle alfo. CHAP. XXVII. Of the Cankerous Ulcer in the Nofe. THat which we call the Cankerous Ulcer in the Nofe, is only a fretting Humour, eating and confuming the flelh, and making it all raw within, and not being holpen in time, will eat through the Nofe. It cometh of corrupt blood, or elfe of a (harp humour ingen- dred by means of feme extream cold. The Signs are, The Horfe will often bleed at the Nofe, and all the fiefh within his Nofe will be raw, and filthy (linking favours, and mat¬ ter will come out at the Nofe. The Cure thereof, according to the ancient Farriers, is, Take of igreen Copperas and of A]om, of each a pound; of white Copperas one quartern, and boil thefe in a pottle of running Water until a pint be confumed: then take it off and put thereto half a pint of Honey, then caufe his Head to be holden up with a drenching-ftaff, and (quirt Into his Noftrils with a fquirt of Brafs or Pewter, fome of this Water being lukewarm, three or four times one after another ; but betwixt every fquirting give him leave to hold down his Head, and to fnort out