Volume 1

The farrier's dispensatory : In three parts. Containing first, a description of the medicinal simples commonly made use of in the diseases of horses ... Secondly, the preparation of simples, vegetable, animal and mineral ... Thirdly, a number of useful compositions and receipts suited to the cure of all diseases. To which is also added, a complete index of all the medicines contained in the book ... with a table of diseases ... / By W. Gibson.

  • William Gibson
Date:
1726
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Credit: The farrier's dispensatory : In three parts. Containing first, a description of the medicinal simples commonly made use of in the diseases of horses ... Secondly, the preparation of simples, vegetable, animal and mineral ... Thirdly, a number of useful compositions and receipts suited to the cure of all diseases. To which is also added, a complete index of all the medicines contained in the book ... with a table of diseases ... / By W. Gibson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    if they be not of a very long Standing, it will either diffolve them quite,or fo far move the Hu- -mours, that they will ripen, and turn to Impofthumation ;_ this - Jaftis an Effect that I] have fome- times known, tho’ it moft com- monly diffolves without ripen- ing. It will cure {cabby or tet- terous Ulcers, and nothing is comparable to it for Windgals, excepting cauftick Medicines; all hard Swellings of the Kernels about the Throat, or any other Part, will foon yield to it., It does the greateft Wonders imaginable in the Cure of UI- cers that are hard and dead a- bout the Edges, applying it con- ftantly {pread over the Piledget or Tent, as the Surgeons do their Dreflings, for it wonderfully at- tenuates the Juices, and. opens thofe Canals that have been in « Ounce, Refin three Drams ; * melt them together, and add « Myrrh in fine Powder three * Ounces and an half, and make € them into a Plafter. This is an admirable Salve to drefs Wounds and Ulcers and: is very proper for Hor- fes that are obliged to travel,” it being an eafy, and no ways troublefome drefling, requiring only tobe fpread on Leather, or thick Flaxen-cloth, and appli- ed frefh to, the Part once a Day, with a Rowler tied round the Legs; to keep the Dirt front it, or the Water from wafhing it off. : Hemlock-Plafter, with Ammonia cum. ed for a confiderable time; it willalfo, by a continued Ufe, fof- ten Warts, Rats-tails, Scratches, and other hard Excrefcences a- bout the Legs and Pafterns, and will wafte and diffolve thofe Excrefcences that are foft and fpungy. If it be ufed as a co- ver over Ulcers, it muft be re- newed every Day, or every o- ther Day, like the Dreflings of a Wound, but when it is ap- plied to Parts that are dry, it needs only be renewed, as often as it begins to loofen. Fe Sulphur - Plafter of Rolun- ahd dus... i 3 ‘ TakeBalfam of Sulphur three ' § Ounces, yellow Wax half an © Take Juice of Hemlock four * Ounces, Vinegar of Squills and ‘ Gum Ammoniacum, of each * eight Ounces ; diffolve the Gum ‘ with the Juice over a gentle ‘ Fire, then ftrain the whole ‘ thro’ a Canvas-cloth, put it ‘ again over a gentle Fire, and * continue ftirring till the Jui- * cesare evaporated, and. that the ‘ whole is brought to the Con- * fiftence of an Emplafter. . This is an excellent: difcutient Plafter, and may be. applied to diffolve: hard, knotty Swellings in any Part of the. Body of an Horfe ; it. will alfo be of fervice to an Horfe that is difeafed in his Spleen or Liver; and may be ving away the Hair, and f{pread- ing it on Leather, I have known great fervice done by mixing - , this