The English horsman and complete farrier directing all gentlemen and others how to breed, feed, ride, and diet all kind of horses whether for war, race, or other service : with a discovery of the causes, signs, and cures of all diseases, both internal and external, incident to horses : alphabetically digested : with The humours of a Smithfield jockey / by Robert Almond.

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The English horsman and complete farrier directing all gentlemen and others how to breed, feed, ride, and diet all kind of horses whether for war, race, or other service : with a discovery of the causes, signs, and cures of all diseases, both internal and external, incident to horses : alphabetically digested : with The humours of a Smithfield jockey / by Robert Almond.
Author
Almond, Robert.
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London :: Printed for Simon Miller,
1673.
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Horses -- Diseases.
Horses -- Training.
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Hayr, how to make it grow speedily.

Take the new Dung of a Goat, ordinary Ho∣ney, Allom powdered, and the blood of an Hog, seeth these together, and what places in the horse you see destitute of hair, rub them herewith every day, this will restore hair wonderfully.

Now since it often happeneth that either by

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reason of a dry Mange, or some evil humours re∣sorting to those parts, the hair of both Main and Tail do often shed and fall away, it is requisite that we here prescribe a remedy; and to that end, first, take blood from the Neck-Vein, then slit the skin of the inward part of the Tail (if both are affected with one Distemper, viz. the shedding of the hair) next to the Tuel, from the buttocks to the fourth joint, and there with your Cornet you shall find a hard Gristle, raise it up therewith, and take it forth; having so done, fill up the cavity with Salt finely beaten, and then with an hot Iron steeped in Buck-ly, burn the Tail in sundry places, and then anoint the pla∣ces with Hogs grease till they be whole: this hath been found true by the experience of seve∣ral.

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