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.

How to take off Hair from any part of an Horse.

Take half a pound of unfleckt Lime, and boil it till a fourth part be consumed, then put there∣unto an Ounce of Orpiment, then take hereof and spread it on Leather, and lay it to that part of the Horse from whence you would have hair taken, this in six hours will take the hair quite a∣way.

Or you may take Rust and Orpiment, and whilst it is scalding hot wash the part therewith, and in a very little time the hair will fall away.

There may be necessary occasions for the use of either of these medicines, but I would not advise you to abuse it as some have done, and have been justly hanged for their pains, that is, they have by these means taken out a star in the forehead of an Horse they have stoln, or some observable mark about his body, and have made hair grow of a∣nother colour in the place, by which means the right owner knew not his own Horses when he saw them. See more of this in the foregoing Sections of making artificial Stars.