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.
![J I 1 '' r' 1 * ,|1 ■' ' 11 he will have many Knots like Wax Kernels between his Chaules about the Roots of hi. Tongue; his Head will be fomewhat heavy, and from his Noftrils Will run a certain clear Water; but if about his I ongue-roots be any great Swelling, or Inflammation like a mighty bqtch or bile, then it is the Strangle; but if from his Noftrils do iffue any thick ftmking, or corrupt matter, then it is the Glanders, of both, which we lhall ipeak hereafter in their proper places. Now for this or¬ dinary Cold, which is ordinarily taken, (the figns whereof, bcfides his much Coughing, are before declared) you lhall underftand, that for the Cure being very eafie, it is helped limdry ways: Some Cure it only by Purging his head with Pills of Butter and Garlick, the marr- ner whereof you lhall find in the Chapter of Purgations. Other Far¬ riers Cure it with purging his head with fumes, and forcing him to lneeze, the manner whereof is in the Chapter of Neefing; which done, you lhall give him to drink Water wherein hath been fodden Fenu¬ greek, Wheat-meal, and Annifeeds; and then to trot him up and down halt an hour after. Others ufe to give him Neefing Powder, blown; up into his Noftrils, and then this drink: Take a Pint of Malm fen jS )Vn!,tes T,and YoIks of four or five Eggs, a head of Garlick; pruned imal!, Pepper and Cinamon , and Nutmegs, of each a like quantity beaten to fine Powder, and a pretty quantity of [west Butter, mix them together, and give it lukewarm with a- horn three days together : Then keep him falling at Jeaft two- hours after. Others ufe to let the Horfe Blood in the Vein under his Tail, and to rub all his Mouth over with a Bunch of Sage bound to a nicks end, and then to mix with his Provender the tender crops of black Berries; but I take this Medicine to be fitteft for fuch Horfec who with the cold Rheum are troubled with pain in their Chaps, and: not with fluffing in their head. Now aftho* none of chefe Medicines are fault-worthy, yet dome for mine own part, I have ever found to be moft Excellent for thefe flight colds, moderate Exercife, both before and after a Horfe’s water, in fiich fort as is declared in the Chapter of the Night-Mare,, without any other fuming or drenching, except I found the cold to be more than ordina¬ ry, and that for want of heed taking it was like to grow to forne Ulcer about the Rootsof the Tongue. In this cafe I would for one time and no more, give the Horfe a Pint of Sack, and half a Pint of Sallet-Oil i made lukewarm, and wel] brew’d with good ftore of Sugar-Candy, .to* drink m the Mprning fafting, and then exercife him moderately there- upon, without putting iiim. into any fweat, and it hath never failed to * work the effedh X. wifliedin^ ample, fort, without -hindring-arany/](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30510843_0061.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
