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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![tied him to the rack,-then take off his clothes, and drefs him in all points, as was (hewn you in the morning, then cloth and fuddle him, and lead him forth, endeavor to make him pifs and dung upon the foul litter at the (table door; afterwards mount his back and ride him forth as you did in the morning, but not to the hills, if you can find any plain and level ground, as pafture, meadow, &c. efpecially if it lies along the river fide; but in this cafe you ;nu(t take the mod convenient ground you can find, there air your horfe as you did in the morning, gallop, ing him both before and after his water, then* rack him gently up and down; in your racking you mud obferve, even from the (table door,; in all your pafTages, efpecially when you would have your horfe to empty himfelf, to let him frnell upon every old and new dung he meets, for this will caufe him to empty his body, and repair his (tomach- When you have watered your horfe, andj fpent the evening in airing him, till near night, (for nothing is more wholefome, or fooner; confumeth foulnef», than early and late airings) .you (hall then ride him home, and whatever you did in the morafng, either within doors or without, do the fame alio at night, and fo leave him in his bridle for an hour or upwards, thenj return and rub him well, take off his bridle,' clean the manger, put up his fcattered hay, fift him a quart of oats, and fo let him reft tiii nine ! o'clock. At nine o'clock, which is bed time for your] horfe, you muft rub down his legs with hard!](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21139118_0022.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
