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Markham's master-piece. Containing all knowledge belonging to the smith, farrier, or horse-leach / [Gervase Markham].

  • Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637
Date:
1710
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Markham's master-piece. Containing all knowledge belonging to the smith, farrier, or horse-leach / [Gervase Markham]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    t' 1 n itn.crTi1'— ■ r i T-^mmri<nr> t|i — i>‘> ml i u.iMai int>BiBBrorT>lBrttTriiT*~»riT<TB I I'liurnumum together, and the ocher particular excefs, either, of too much Melan* cbolly Fhgm, or other Watrifh Humours whatfoever, the fh ft being ter¬ med an abundance of Humours, the latter an excefs of evil Juice or Nutriment. Laftly, there is fulnefs, in quantity, and fnlnefs in quality. Fulnefs in quantity is when a Boris is full of Blood, or any other fim- pie Humours. ‘Fulnefs in quality, is when any of thefe Humours are too hot, or too cold, too graft, or too thin. Now for emptinefi ^ as all Difeafes of fulnefs muff be cured by it only, fo all Difeafes of empri- nefs muft be healed by fulnefs, as by taking of Blood, by Pwgs^ Frisi¬ an, Scarification, Boxing, Sweating,, Bathing, and a world of fuch like^ as fhall be very largeljr fet forth hereafter, in its proper place. Laftly, Touching the Affections of a Horfe’s Mind, you fhall under- Hand, that fo far forth as the Senfkive Soul doth ftretch, fo far they have fenfe and feeling of Affections, as namely, to Love, to Hate, to be Angry, to Rejoyce, to he Sorry, and to Fear: For all which there needs no great Jpology, flnce we have it in daily Experience : As who feeth not the Love of fome Horfes to their Keepers, their hate to Stran¬ gers *, their Angers in their Fights, their Joys in their Prides and Woo- ings, their Sorrows in their Sicknefles, and their Fears unto their Ri¬ ders 5 now thefe Affe&ions, flnce many times they are the grounds of ftrange Motions in the Body * therefore they ought carefulfy to be looked unto by the Farrier, and that the Horfe be not overprejfed with *ny of them * efpecially fear and hatred, the firft whereof compelleth the Blood and Spirits to fly to the inward Parts, and to leave the outward without fenfe or feelings and the latter makes him to be unquiet, fierce and rag¬ ing ^ both together breed diftemperature in a Horfe, and thofe diftem- peratures ingender mortal fickneffes. And thus much for thefe fix thingsy being held not Natural in a.Horfe*s Gompofitmu C H A P, X. Of . Horfes Complexion. HAving fpoken of thofe Thirteen Natural, and not Natural things, whereof a Horfe 5s Body is compounded, we will now in a fome- what more particular manner fpeak of the Complexions of Horfes, which is one cf the moft necelTary.Faces that a Farrier can behold, both for the judging of a Horfe’s Infirmities, and alfo for the true com¬ pounding of his Medicines for every Difeafe : Therefore you fhall firft understand, that by the Colour of the Horfe you fhall ever judge his complexion: For look which of the Elements is predominant in him, from that Element we draw his Complexion: as thus ; If he partici¬ pate more of the: Fire than of any of the other Elements, then we lold him to be a Cholerick Horfe, and his Colour is either a bright Sorrel,