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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![horfe much : as for the black oats, though they are tolerable in time of neceffity, yet they caufe foul dung, and thereby hinder a man's know- ledge in the ftate of the horfe's body. This quart of oats put into a feive, fomewhat lefs than a riddle, and rather larger than a ree- ing fieve, fuch as will let light oats go through, and keep a full oat from fcattering. Having well cleaned your oats, give them to the horfe, ?nd if he eats them with a good ftomach, then fift and give him as much more, letting him reft until 11 o'clock ; then return to the liable, and having rubbed the horfe's head, neck, and face, take another quart of oats, cleaned as before, and give them to him, then clofing up your windows, that the horfe may remain as dark as poflible, leave him till one o'clock, for the dark- er you keep your horfe in your abfence, the bet- ter it is; it will occafion him to feed, lie down, and take his reft, where otherwife he would not, and you mould cover the ftall all round, and over head, and over the rack, with ftrong can- vas, both for darknefs, warmth, and that no . filth may come near the horfe. At one o'clock, return again to the horfe, and drefs him another quart of oats and give it him: after you have well rubbed his face, head, and the nape of his neck, put away his dung, and made the ftable clean, give him a fmall lock of hay, and leave him until four o'clock, if it be Cummer, and until three, if it be in the winter At four o'clock return to the ftable, and having made all things clean, bridle up your horfe] having wet the fnaffel with beer, and](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21139118_0021.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
