The first booke of cattell wherein is shewed the gouernment of oxen, kine, calues, and how to vse bulles and other cattell to the yoake, and fell. With diuers approued remedies, to helpe most diseases among cattell: most necessarie for all, especially for husband men, hauing the gouernment of any such cattell. Gathered and set forth by Leonard Mascall.

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The first booke of cattell wherein is shewed the gouernment of oxen, kine, calues, and how to vse bulles and other cattell to the yoake, and fell. With diuers approued remedies, to helpe most diseases among cattell: most necessarie for all, especially for husband men, hauing the gouernment of any such cattell. Gathered and set forth by Leonard Mascall.
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Mascall, Leonard, d. 1589.
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London :: Printed by Iohn Wolfe,
1587.
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Veterinary medicine -- Early works to 1800.
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"The first booke of cattell wherein is shewed the gouernment of oxen, kine, calues, and how to vse bulles and other cattell to the yoake, and fell. With diuers approued remedies, to helpe most diseases among cattell: most necessarie for all, especially for husband men, hauing the gouernment of any such cattell. Gathered and set forth by Leonard Mascall." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A07176.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 22, 2025.

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The Table of all the principal thinges con∣tained in this Booke for horses.

A
  • AGe of a horse to know.
  • Asses how for to nourish.
  • Age of a horse to know.
B
  • BAbbes or Gekes to helpe. 182
  • Backe gald to heale. 177. 163
  • Barbs in the horse mouth to helpe. 154
  • Blisters on his body to helpe. 110
  • Blindnes in a horse to helpe. 145. 165
  • Blood how to stanch. 128
  • Blood a disease how to helpe 191
  • Blood how to let.
  • Blood letting to know where. 128
  • Bors or wormes how to helpe. 133
  • Bots another way. 177
  • Breeding of coltes.
  • Brittle hoofes how to helpe. 153
  • Brittle hoofed horse to pare. 158
  • Broken winded horse to helpe. 130
  • Brode hoofes how to pare.
C
  • CAnker in the mouth & throat. 184. 189
  • Camery to helpe. 166. 182
  • Canker in the taile. 187
  • Cart horse how to vse in trauell.
  • Cart how to prepare in trauell. 120
  • Casting of horse or other.
  • Chafings on a horse to help. 107.
  • Chafing sores to helpe. 111
  • Clefts or crackes in the hoofe. 179
  • Chaffe for horse to giue. 167
  • Chafed or weary horse to helpe.
  • Cloying a horse to heale. 144
  • Coltes with their good signes. 106
  • Cold taken in a horse.
  • Coler aboūding in a horse to help.
  • Colts to change to other dammes.
  • Colt euil for to helpe. 142
  • Cods inflamed. 155
  • Colts pained in the gums or teeth. 154
  • Couering mares in what time best 161. 104
  • Cordes a disease to helpe.
  • Cough to helpe. 110
  • Cough another way. 178
  • Couering young mares and howe best. 116
  • Cratches to heale.
  • Crooked hoofes how best to pare.
  • Curbes a disease to helpe. 137
  • Colours of good horses to knowe.
D
  • DIseases where they breed on all horse.
  • Drinke or meat whē to giue. 108
  • Drinke against wormes in horses. 134. 110
  • Drinks against cough or cold.
  • Drink to comfort a horse. 153. 181
E
  • EAres inflamed to helpe
  • Eies sore to heale
  • Euill trauel in a horse.
  • ...

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  • Eies bloudy to helpe.
  • Eies blinded to helpe. 166
  • Eies watery to helpe.
  • Eies stricken to helpe.
  • Eies stricken, another.
  • Eies with the pin and webbe. 146
  • Eies being chaft to heale.
  • Eies redde to helpe.
  • Eies sore how to heale.
  • Eies of horse oftē looked vnto. 176
  • Enterfeere to remedie. 142
  • Enterfering another.
  • Experience of hot and cold horse
F
  • FAlling of teeth in a horse.
  • Falling of haire in a horse taile. 186
  • Faintnes in a horse to helpe. 154
  • Farcy or fashiō in a horse. 179. 124
  • Fat horse to make leane.
  • Feuer in horse to helpe. 122
  • Feuer in Colts to helpe. 154
  • Foaling of Coltes.
  • Fistula to heale. 147
  • Fistula in ye head of a horse. 148
  • Flat hoofe how to pare.
  • Flies troubling a horse to helpe.
  • Foundring of a straight shoe. 185
  • Foundring of a horse to help. 140. 190. 180
  • Fraying in a horse to helpe.
  • Frunce in a horse to helpe. 133
G
  • GALling or fretting to help. 174
  • Glanders in horse to helpe. 172
  • Glanders another. 131. 177
  • Gorge how to heale. 152
  • Gelding of horse.
  • Greene wounds to heale.
  • Grinders or wolues teeth.
  • Graueling of a horse 141
  • Gummes pained to ease.
H
  • Haw to take forth best way. 132
  • Haw in the eie to helpe. 126
  • Haw another way. 174
  • Haire to increase
  • Heate to abate in a horse. 154
  • Head of a horse pained. 108
  • Hen dung vnholesome for a horse.
  • Hide bound to helpe. 173
  • Hinder feet shoyng.
  • Hollow feete pared.
  • Oyntment for hoofes.
  • Howsing of a horse
  • Hoof bound to help or loose. 123
  • Hoofes being hot on his feet. 119
  • Hoof bound how to shoe.
  • Hoofe loose how to helpe. 152
  • Horse without braines.
  • Horse that wil tire, to helpe. 182
  • Horse for to skoure.
  • Horse age or growing.
  • Horse harnesse to be looked vnto. 119
  • Horse or beast forespoken. 172
  • Horse bewitched to know.
I
  • ILl for horse eyes.
  • Itch in the taile to helpe. 154
  • Impostumes to helpe or ripe. 183
  • Impostumed wounds to help. 181
L
  • LAmpas to helpe. 148
  • Lamenes in a horse to help. 174
  • Leannes in a horse to helpe. 123
  • Lice on horse to helpe. 143
  • Long wormes to helpe. 134
  • Long hoofe how to pare.
  • Loose hoofe to helpe. 166
  • Loose teeth how to fasten. 192
M
  • MAlender how to helpe. 134
  • Malt worme to helpe. 163
  • Mares when to be couered. 104
  • Mares when to couer. 161
  • Mangie to helpe. 176
  • Mangie in horse to helpe. 173. 193
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  • Mangie another. 168. 183
  • Mares how for to gouern. 105
  • Mares hard in foaling to helpe.
  • Mares old not good for coltes.
  • Mares how to haue male, or fe∣male colts. 106
  • Mares with fole hauing bottes to helpe. 110
  • Mares hauing rage of loue. 113
  • Mares hauing the pestilence. 113
  • Matelong in the foote. 123
  • Moyles how to nourish.
  • Moyles with their beautie. 116
  • More founding in the foote. 179
  • Mourning of ye chine. 167. 132. 173
  • Another for the same.
  • Another for the same.
N
  • NErfes & sinewes broken. 188
  • Nailes for horseshoes to make. 157
  • Nailes in the flesh to heale. 168
  • Narrow heeld horse howe to pare.
  • Nauelgall to helpe.
  • Nauelgall another.
  • Nose bleeding to stanche.
P
  • PAines a disease in the feete. 137
  • Paynes or Cratches.
  • Paring the hoofe bound.
  • Paring of hoofes. 156
  • Paring a broade hoofe. 157
  • Pastornes fretted to heale. 122. 126
  • Pestilence among mares. 113
  • Pestilence among horse. 150
  • Pinne and webbe to helpe.
  • Pissing blood to helpe. 149
  • Pissing not well to helpe. 126
  • Another for the same.
  • Place to couer mares best.
  • Plucking out thorne or yron.
  • Pole euill to helpe. 129
  • Pricked in a ioynt to helpe. 184
  • Pricked with a naile to helpe. 166
  • Proude flesh to helpe.
  • Properties of a good horse.
  • Prouerbes.
  • Purging of horse.
  • Puffing vp a leane horse.
Q
  • QVincie in horse to helpe. 127
  • Quertes or chinks in ye hoofs.
R
  • RAge of mares.
  • Ringbone to helpe.
  • Rubbing of horses doth good.
  • Rugged or brittle hoofe to pare.
  • Repaire flesh in a wound. 189
S
  • Saddle chafe your horse.
  • Scratches to heale. 177. 162. 165
  • Another for the same.
  • To make a horse to scoure. 185
  • Scratches another.
  • Sinewes troubled.
  • Selander to helpe. 135
  • Shakle gall to helpe.
  • Shot poysoned.
  • Shoing of a cart horse. 155
  • Shoing of other horse. 155
  • Shoing of diuers hoofes diuersly. fol. 158. 159. 160
  • Shoing the forefeet of horse best. 156
  • Shoing a broade hoofe. 157
  • Shoes made with whole quarters.
  • Shoulder hurt to heale.
  • Signes to know if a horse hath the bots.
  • Signes to know a sick horse. 127
  • Sinewes broken to heale.
  • Skin of horse rased to heale.
  • Skinne of horse watery to helpe.
  • Sore chafings to heale.
  • Sorenesse when they breede.
  • Sore impostumes to heale.
  • Spauin to helpe. 136
  • Spayde coltes. 167
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  • Spraines or straine in horse. 124
  • Another for straines
  • Splint to heale. 133
  • Stabling or houssng of horse.
  • Stalions in his best age.
  • Stalions some hoter thā other. 115
  • Staggers a disease to helpe.
  • Strongest horse or moyle to know.
  • Stound in the pastorne to helpe.
  • Stifnes of sinewes and ioynts.
  • Stifle in the heele to helpe. 124
  • Strangury to helpe. 132
  • Stubbe in the flesh to helpe.
  • Surbating to heale. 145
  • Swelling vnder the iowles. 193
  • Swolne places to heale. 161. 167
  • Another for the swelling by too much wind. 191
T
  • TAint in a horse to helpe. 143
  • Taming of horse.
  • Taste loste in a horse to helpe.
  • Teeth not euen to helpe.
  • Teeth pained to helpe. 192
  • Tyring on the horse by the way to helpe. 182. 189
  • Thorne to plucke out.
  • Tongue hurt with bit. 181
  • Tōgues of horse to see to oftē. 176
  • Trenches to helpe. 166. 176
  • Another for the same.
V
  • VEnomed places to helpe. 149
  • Viues how to heale. 126. 180
  • Vometing in horse to staie.
W
  • WArtes on horse legs to marke.
  • White feete on a horse.
  • Water vnholesome for horse. 149
  • Weakenesse in a horse to helpe.
  • Wearines in a horse to helpe. 123
  • Wound on horse to heale. 181
  • Wingalles to helpe. 179. 135
  • Wolues teeth in horse to help. 176 190
  • Worms in horse to helpe.
  • Wormes in the maw. 192
Y
  • YEalowes a disease in horse to helpe. 150. 193
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