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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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    he will have many Knots like Wax Kernels between his Chaules about the Roofs of his Tongue ^ his Head will be fomewhat heavy, and from his Noftrils will run a certain clear Water $ but if about his Tongue-roots be any great Swelling, or Inflammation like a mighty botch or bile, then it is the Strangle ^ but ii from his Noftrils do iflTue any thick, {linking, or corrupt matter, then it is the Glanders, of both which we Ihull fpeak hereafter in their proper places. Now for this or¬ dinary Cold, which is ordinarily taken, (the figns whereof, befides his much Coughing, are before declared) you fhall underftand, that for the Cure being very eafie, it is helped fundry ways : Some Cure it only by Purging his head with Pills of Butter and Garlicky the man¬ ner whereof you fhall find in the Chapter of Purgations. Other Far¬ riers cure it with purging his head with fumes, and forcing him to fneeze, the manner whereof is in the Chapter of N^fing which done, you fhall give him to drink Water wherein hath been fodden Fenu¬ greek^ Wheat-meal, and Annifeedsy and then to trot him up and down half an hour after. Others ule to give him Neefing Powder, blown up into his Noftrils, and then this drink : Take a Pint of Malmfey^ and the Whites and Yolks of four or five Eggs, a head of Garlick bruifed final! * Pepper and Cinamon, and Nutmegs, of each a like quantity beaten to fine Powder, and a pretty quantity of fweet Butter, mix them together, and give it lukewarm with a horn three daj^s to* ggffier :* Then keep him fafting at lead two hours after. Others o# to let the' Htfrfe Blood in the Vein under his Tail, and to rub all hfs Mouth over with a Bunch of Sage bound to a dicks end, and then to mix.with his Provender the tender crops of black Berries $ but I fej^this- Medici tie to be fitted for fuch Horfes, who with the cold: <Rheum are troubled with pain in their Chaps,- and not with duffing in their Retrd. # ^^^[nw^Itho^none of thefe Medicines are fault-worthy, yet fome for immown 'part, I have ever found to be mod Excellent for thefe flight polds, mpdera^eJExercife, both before and after a Horfe’s water, in fuch fort as isHecflared in the Chapter of the Night-Mare, without any other fuming orffirenching, except I found the cold to be more than ordina¬ ry, and* that for want of heed taking it was like to grow to Tome Ulcer about the Roots of the Tongue. In this cafe l would for one time and no more, give the Hbrfe a Pint of Sack, and half a Pint of Saliet-Oil made lukewarm,and well brew’d with good dore of Sugar-Candy, to drink in the Morning fading, and then ex^rcife him-moderately there¬ upon, without putti&g him into any (wear, and it hath never failed to* work the effects I Wiihed in ample fort, without hindring me at any time