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].

  • Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637.
Date:
1703
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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.

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    CHAP. VI. Of Powers, and how a Horfes Bo sly is governed by them* pOwers which by Corns are called Virtues, or principal Faculties, I and do govern and concroul both the Body of Man and Beaft* and have the fifth place in this Work, are in Number three, that is, the power Animal, the power Vital, and the power Natural, The power Animal, is a vertue incident to the Brain, which through the Sinews coming like little Conduit-pipes from the Brain, didributeth feeling and moving to all the Parts oi the Body. The power Vital is a venue be¬ longing to the heart which doth give Life and Spirit to all the Body by means of the Arteries ; which proceeding from the heart, which is, the chid Fountain of Natural heat, carry in their little Channels over the whole Body, that Air and Spiritual Blood which makes it full of iight- nsfs and Alacrity. The power Natural is a vertue belonging to the Li¬ ver, which gives nouriihment unto all the Body, and to every Part thereof, by means of the Veins, which do likewife proceed from the Liver, like greater Conduits, carrying the Blood from the Liver., which is the Fountain of Blood, into every Part of the Body. Befides, the power Natural contained] four other vertues, that is the vertue At- tractive, which draweth Food, Meat to fufiam the Body ; the vertue Retentive, by which it retaineth and keepeth the Food received; the vertue Digeftive, whereby it coneo&eth and digeileth the fame j and laftly, the vertue Expulfiye, by which it expelleth excrements and fup'er- fiuities. Thus thefe Powers or Vertues being of no left validity than you perceive by this Difcourfe, it is the Part and Duty of every good Horfeleach, to have a more careful and vigilant refpedfc unto them , for ir any one of them fail, the Horfe cannot live. Therefore when- foever you fee that either your Horfe refufeth his Food, or that he can* not retain and keep his Food, but cafteth it up again ; or that he doth not digeft his food, but keeps it corruptly in his ftomach: or that he cannot void his excrements in a natural manner, but holds it burning in his Body, take them for mod certain figns of mortal ficknefs: And thus much of Powers and Vertues. C FI A P. VI [. Of Actions or Operations, and whereto th« fo1' ■; \ A S touching ABiom or Operations, which are the fixth column ou xjl pillar which doth uphold this Natural Body of which we treat, they are not only belonging, but even derived from the three Powers immediately fpoken in the former Chapter, as thus: The Adfcion and Operation of the power Animal, is to difeern, to move, and to feel* Horfes difeern by means of the vertue Imaginative, Difcmrfative, and C 2 Mmgrative^