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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 Shoulders : The Cure whereof, according to the Ancients, is, To take a Sheeps head unflayed, and boil it in a Gallon and a half of Ale, or running Water, until the flefli be confumed from the Bones ; then ftrain it through a cloth, and put thereto of Sugar half a pound, of Cinnamon one ounce, of Conferve of Roles, of Barberries, and of Cherries, of each one ounce ^ mingle them together, and give the Horfe every Morning a quart thereof lukewarm, till two Sheeps-heads be (pent ^ and after every time he drinketh, let him be gently walked or ridden up and down according to his ftrength, that is, if the Weather be warm abroad if it be cold and windy, then in the Stable, or fome clofe Houfe, fuffering him neither to eat nor drink for two hours after his Medicine * and from cold Water you fhali keep him the fpace of fifteen Days. Now for his ordinary Food or Provender, jmu fhali repute that beft which he eateth beft, whatfoever it be y and that you (hail give him by little and little, and not any grofs or great quantity at once, becaufe the abundance and glut of Food taketh away both the Appetite and Nutenent which fhould proceed from wholefome Feeding. CHAP. LVJIL How to make a lean Horfe Fat. , BElides this general Confumption of a Horfe’s flefh, which for the moft part, or altogether' proceedeth from ficknefs * there is al- fo another .Confumption, or want of flefh, which proceedeth from Neihnefs, Tendernefs, , Frjenefs of Spirit, and* frfce mate under which the Horfe is bred fas nameljvwh^n a fforfe that is bred-in a warm Climate comes to live in a cold •, or whema Horfe that is bred upon a fruitful and rich Soil, comes to live in a Barren and dry place. In any of thefe cafes, the Horfe will be lean without any apparent fign of Grief or Difeafe, which to recover, there be many Receipts and Medicines ^ as namely, the Ancient Farriers did life when a Horfe either grew lean without ficknefs or wouiid, or any known diftem- perature, to take a quarter of a peck of Beans, and boil them in two gallons of Water till they fwell or burft, then to mix with them a peck of Wheat-bran, and fo to give it the Horfe in manner of a Malh, or inffead of Provender, for it will fat fuddenly. Others, and efpecially the Italians y will take Cole worts, and’having fodden them, mix them with Wheat-bran, and Salt, and give them inftead of Provender. There be others which take the fatty Deco&ion of three Tqrtoifes being well fodden, f their heads, tails, bones, and feet being rejected) and giving it the Horfe, fuppofe it fatteih fuddenly *, or if you mix fcheflelh of the Tortoife fo fodden with your Horfe’s Provender, that is t rr a rf.