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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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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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    Lib. I. Of Cures Phyfical. Snake, and cut off her Head and Tail, and then takeout the gats and' entrails, boll the reft in Water till the bone part from the flelh * then call: the bone away, and give every third day of this Decodion more than a pint, till you have fpent three Snakes, and this is excellent good for the dry Cough alfo. Now the Lift and beft Medicine for this Shortnefs of Breath, (for JpO indeed in this Cafe l do not affed much Phyficking) is only to take Annifeeds, Licoras, and Sugarcandy, all beaten into very fine Pow¬ der, and take four fpoonfals thereof, and brew it well with a pint of White-wine, and half a pint of Sallet-Oil^ and ufe this ever after your Horfe’s Travel, and a day before he is travelled.' i t, CHAP. LV. Of the Broken mnded, Pvrfe-fck Horfe. His Difeafe of Broken-winded, I have ever fince I firft began to know either Horfe or Horfe-leach-craft, very much difputed with my felf; and for many Years did conftantly hold (as I.ftill do) that in truth there is no fuch Difeafe; only in this I found by daily experience, that by over-hafly or hidden running of a Horfe (or other) prefently after his Water, or by long {landing in the Stable with no exercife and foul Food, that thereby grofs and thick humours may be drawn down into the Horfe’s Body fo abundantly, that cleaving ' hard unto the hollow places of his Lungs, and flopping up the Wind¬ pipes, the Wind may be fo kept in, that it may only have its-refort backward, and not upward, filling the Guts, and taking from the Body great part of his Strength and Livelyhood , which if from the corruption of our old Inventions, we call Broken-winded, then I inufl , needs confefs, that I have feen many Broken-winded Horfes. The figns of which Difeafe are thefe, much and violent beating of his flanks, efpecially drawing up of his Belly upward, great opening and railing of his Noftrils, and a continual fwift going to and fro of his Tuel: befides, it is ever accompanied with a dry and hollow Cough. The Cure, I muft needs fay in fo great an extremity, (for it is the worft of all the Evils of the Lungs, which are before fpoken of) is mod de- fperate, but the prefervations and helps both to continue the Horfe’s health, and his daily fervice, are very many, as namely, (according to the Opinion of the antient Farriers) to purge your Horfe by giving him this Drink : Take of Maiden-tftir, Ireos, Afb, Licoras, Fenu¬ greek, Bafnis, of each half an ounce, of Cardamum, Pepper, bitter Almonds, Borage, of each two ounces, of Nettle-feed, and of Ari- ftolochia, of each two ounces, boil them all together in a fufficient quantity of Water, and in that Decoition diflblve half an ounce of K Agarick, .