The gentlemans recreation in two parts : the first being an encyclopedy of the arts and sciences ... the second part treats of horsmanship, hawking, hunting, fowling, fishing, and agriculture : with a short treatise of cock-fighting ... : all which are collected from the most authentick authors, and the many gross errors therein corrected, with great enlargements ... : and for the better explanation thereof, great variety of useful sculptures, as nets, traps, engines, &c. are added for the taking of beasts, fowl and fish : not hitherto published by any : the whole illustrated with about an hundred ornamental and useful sculptures engraven in copper, relating to the several subjects.

For a Prick in the Foot.

FIrst, Take off the Shoe, and pare his Hoof to find out the bottom of the Wound; then take Turpentine, fresh Butter, and a little black Pitch boyled together, and pour it into the Wound scalding hot; then dip some Tow in the same, and stuff it well between the Shoe and the Foot, splintering and binding it about with Sticks and Leather to keep it on; but if it be a long Nail that struck into his Foot on the Road in a Journey; then pluck out the Nail, heat it red hot, and put it into the Hole as far as it went in; and having thus seared it with the Nail, to keep it from festring, melt fresh Butter and Turpentine with a little black-Pitch, and pour into the Hole as aforesaid; then clap on the Shoe, and stuff the Foot with Tow, as before directed.