The citizen and countryman's experienced farrier : to all which is added : a valuable and fine collection of the surest and best receipts in the known world for the cure of all maladies and distempers that are incident to horses of what kind soever, with directions to know what is the ailment, or disease / by J. Markham, G Jefferies, and discreet Indians.
- Gervase Markham
- Date:
- MDCCXCVII [1797]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The citizen and countryman's experienced farrier : to all which is added : a valuable and fine collection of the surest and best receipts in the known world for the cure of all maladies and distempers that are incident to horses of what kind soever, with directions to know what is the ailment, or disease / by J. Markham, G Jefferies, and discreet Indians. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
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![what your hands did wet, your hands muft rub dry again ; you fhall alfo with your wet hands, cleanie his fheath, yard, cods., and tuel, and not leave any fecret place uncleanfed, as ears, nofhils, fore-bowels, and between his hinder thighs: then take an hair-cloth, and rub the horfe all over, efpecially his face, eyes, cheeks, the top of the forehead, the nap of the neck, and down his legs, fetlocks, and about his paf- terns. Then take a clean woollen cloth, and rub the horfe all over, beginning with his head and face, and fo pairing over each part of the horfes's body : then take a wet mane-comb, and comb his mane and tail; when this is done, take a large body-cloth of thick warm kerfey, if in the winter ; or of fine cotton or oiher light fluff, if in the fummer, and fold it round the horfe's body, then put on his faddle and girt the foremofl girt pretty tight, and the other girt flack, and whifpit on each fide of the hor-j fe's heart, until that both girts be of equal ftrait-1 nefs, then put before his bread a warm breaft-3 cloth, and let it Gover both his fhoulders. When the horfe is thus accoutred, you take a little beer into your mouth, and fpirt it into the horfe's mouth, then lead him out of the j liable, and mount him, leaving fome perfon to { trim up your ftable, clear away the dung, and] make up the litter, for your horfe muft (land good ftore of frefh dry litter continually, of wheat-ftraw if poflible, if not, of oat-ftraw : i as for barley or rye-ftraw, they are both un- wholefome and dangerous, one caufeth the heart-burn, the other fcowering.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21139118_0018.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
