The gentlemans jockey, and approved farrier instructing in the natures, causes, and cures of all diseases incident to horses. With an exact and easie method of breeding, buying, dieting, and otherwise ordering all sorts of horses, as well for common and ordinary use, as the heats and course. With divers other curiosities collected by the long practice, experience and pains of J.H. Esquire, Matthew Hodson, Mr. Holled, Mr. Willis, Mr\ Robinson, Mr. Holden, Thomas Empson, Mr. Roper, Mr. Medcalf, and Nathaniel Shaw.

Title

The gentlemans jockey, and approved farrier instructing in the natures, causes, and cures of all diseases incident to horses. With an exact and easie method of breeding, buying, dieting, and otherwise ordering all sorts of horses, as well for common and ordinary use, as the heats and course. With divers other curiosities collected by the long practice, experience and pains of J.H. Esquire, Matthew Hodson, Mr. Holled, Mr. Willis, Mr\ Robinson, Mr. Holden, Thomas Empson, Mr. Roper, Mr. Medcalf, and Nathaniel Shaw.

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Halfpenny, John, 18th cent.

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London :: printed for Hen. Twyford in Vine-Court Middle-Temple, and Nath. Brook at the Angel near the Royal Exchange in Cornhill,

1676.

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"The gentlemans jockey, and approved farrier instructing in the natures, causes, and cures of all diseases incident to horses. With an exact and easie method of breeding, buying, dieting, and otherwise ordering all sorts of horses, as well for common and ordinary use, as the heats and course. With divers other curiosities collected by the long practice, experience and pains of J.H. Esquire, Matthew Hodson, Mr. Holled, Mr. Willis, Mr\ Robinson, Mr. Holden, Thomas Empson, Mr. Roper, Mr. Medcalf, and Nathaniel Shaw." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A44531.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 17, 2025. content_copy

Contents

• title page
• TO THE READER.
• THE TABLE.
• THE Gentlemans IOCKY & Approved FARRIER
• AN INTRODUCTION TO THE READER, OR, A gaining of satisfaction to all reason∣able Practisers, and confuting the wil∣ful self-conceited.
• OF THE RUNNING HORSE, And divers other Choice Secrets Not formerly published.
  • The first ordering of the Running Horse, accor∣ding to the several estates of their Bodies.
  • How to diet an Horse for a Match, that is fat, foul, and either newly taken from Grass or Soil, being the first Fortnight.
  • Now touching his heats, you are to take to your self these four Considerations.
  • The second Fortnight's keeping.
  • The first Bread.
  • The first Scowring.
  • The Ordering of the Horse after this Scowring.
  • The third Fortnights keeping.
  • The second Bread.
  • The Fourth and Last Fortnights keeping.
  • The last Bread.
  • General Observations, Helps and advertise∣ments, for any man when he goeth about to buy an Horse.
  • Certain Infallible Helps and Cures for those Infirmities which are most dangerous, and do commonly attend all Horses; especially the Runing Horse.
    • First of Sickness in general.
    • Certain necessary Observatins and Advantages for every Keeper to observe in sundry accidents.
    • Observations for sickness and health.
    • Observations from the Dung
    • Observations from the Urine.
    • Observations in Feeding.
    • Observations in Case of Lameness.
    • Observations from the state of the Horses Body.
    • Observations from the Privy Parts.
    • Observations from the Limbs.
    • Observations for the giving of Water
    • Observations in the choice of Ground to Run on
    • Observations from Sweating.
    • Observations from the Horses Hair.
• MATTHEW HODSON'S Medicines.
  • A Medicine for the Glanders.
  • A Medicine for any Cold that is not the Glanders.
  • For a Strain in the Shoulder
  • A Cure for a Sinew-Sprung Horse.
  • The true manner of making those Balls, which Cure any violent Cold or Glanders, which prevent heavy Sickness, which purge away all molten grease, which recover a loose sto∣mack, which keep the heart from fainting with exercise, and make a lean Horse fat suddenly.
  • An approved Cure for the Botts, and all manner of Worms, of what nature so∣ever.
  • Another most excellent Receipt for the Botts or any Worms, which is most easie and most certain without sickness.
  • An uncontrollable way how to know the Age of any Horse.
    • First
    • Second.
    • Third.
    • Fourth.
    • Fifth
    • Sixth
    • Seventh.
  • An Excellent Purgation, when any Horse is sick of his Grease, or any Co∣stiveness.
  • For Laxativeness or extream Looseness.
  • An Infallible help for the Stone, or pain of Urine, causing Sickness.
  • An approved Medicine to cure and break any old grevious, festred and rotten Cold, and to dry up a foul running Glanders.
  • Another for a Violent Cold.
  • An excellent Scowring, when other Scow∣rings will not work.
  • An admirable Water for any sore Eye, or to clear any dim sight, as the Moon-eyes and the like.
  • Another Water, no less precious for the Eyes then the former.
  • The Master Medicine of all Medicines, for a Back Sinew-Strain, or any grief, pain, straightness, shrinking, or numness of joynts or sinews.
  • St. Antayne his only Excellent Medicine, for any Strain or Swelling.
  • Another for any desperate old Strain, whether it be in the Shoulder, Joynts, Hips, or Back-sinews.
  • An Excellent Charge for any New Strain, or offence on the Sinews, or any grief proceeding from heat.
  • A perfect Cure for any Sinew-Strain,
  • Markham's own Balm, which hath never failed him, for any Strain in the Shoulder, or other part, hidden or apparent; Or any Wind-gall, Pain or Swelling whatsoever.
  • For swell'd or Gourded-Legs, whether it be by reason of the Grease falling into them, or other accident, as Scratches, Pains, Mules, &c.
  • Another approved Cure for the Scratches, or any Disease of that nature.
  • For any Splint, Spaven, Ringbone, Curb, or any other hard Knot or Excres∣sion.
  • An approved Cure for the Swift Cut, or any hewing on the Legs whatsoever.
  • For any Farcy, Mangy, Scab, or Leprosie, whether in the Mane or other∣wise.
  • For any Founder, Frettize, Surbait, or any imperfection in the Feet.
  • To make Hoofs grow quickly; and to be tough and strong.
  • A general Salve for any Sore or Swel∣ling.
  • For a Pearl, Pin, and Web, or any Film on an Horses Eye.
  • For Grease fallen into the Legs to help them at twice dressing, and to help the Scratches.
  • For the Glanders, an approved Cure.
  • To stay the Glanders for a time, till you may make sale of your Horse.
  • An approved Cure for the Pains, Mules, Rats-tails, and the like.
  • To help an Horse that galls between the Legs, either through heat or evil dressing.
  • For Enterfairing, to help it or hide it, for a small time.
  • The best Receipt that can be for brittle Hoofs.
  • To cure the Scratches
  • For the Farcy.
  • For to cure the Cankers in a Horses mouth.
  • An approved Cure for the Pains, Mules, Rats-tails, and the like.
  • To help an Horse that galls between the Legs, either through heat or evil dressing.
  • For Enterfairing, to help it or hide it, for a small time.
  • The best Receipt that can be for brittle Hoofs.
  • To cure the Scratches
  • For the Farcy.
  • For to cure the Cankers in a Horses mouth.
  • For to cure the Scratches.
  • For a Horse that hath a Cold.
  • For a Beast that staleth Blood.
  • For the Botts.
  • For a Horse that hath got an Over-reach, or a Tread of the Heel.
  • For a Horse that hath got a stroke, or a bite of the Eye
  • For the Scratches.
  • For the swelling of a Horses Back.
  • For a strain
  • For a Horse that is mangy.
  • For the Spleen.
  • A Glister to expel the Wind.
  • A Glister for the Wind-Colick.
  • For the Wind Colick.
• How to order, feed, and keep any Horse for Pleasure, Hunting, or Travel.
• An Order how to breed Horses.
  • The choice of your Stallion and Studd Mares.
  • Wild Mares be not best to keep for the Race.
  • At what age your Mare is first to be handled and covered.
  • How to inforce your Mares to come to be strained.
  • The Order of covering.
  • How to use your Mare which is covered.
  • How to make that no mare shall go barren.
  • What time of the year is best for your Mares to be covered.
  • To Dyet your Stand for the time he shall cover.
  • How your breeding Mare is to be used when she shall foal.
  • How many years a Horse will serve to cover your Mares.
  • The best age for Horse or Mare to get or bear Colts, and how many years they will continue good
  • What time of the year is best to wean the Colts from their Dams,
  • What feeding is best for Colts, from two years old upward.
  • Why English Horses being taken up so young, are not good.
  • The way to handle a sturdy Horse.
  • The using of Horses after they be handled.
  • What feeding is best in Winter for Mares, Weanlings, of two years old.
  • At what age Colts may best be handled.
• Approved Receipts, For the Curing of all Diseases Incident to HORSES.
  • Receipt. I. To draw out any Thorn or Nayl, in any place.
  • II. A perfect Drier of a Green Wound, or any other Sore.
  • III. For any Anbury.
  • IV. For the Flapps in an Horses mouth.
  • V. To rot a Sore or Swelling.
  • VI. Directions how to lay a Wound open, and where; and how to miss the Veins un∣der it, be it in Body or Legs.
  • VII. The way to put in a French Rowel.
  • VIII. A rare Green Oyntment to heal any Wound, old or new, quickly
  • IX. To take a Film off an Horses Eye.
  • X. A Medicine to defend and keep back humors from a Wound, so that it may heal the sooner.
  • XI. Another for the same.
  • XII. A rare Receipt for a Farcion.
  • XIII. For a Horse that hath his Fundament fallen out; or for a Cow that hath the Mother fallen out.
  • XIV. To kill Lice of horses and Cows.
  • XV. For a Stub or other hurt in or about the Foot.
  • XVI. To Cleanse any Wound old or new.
  • XVII. For the Sleeping Evil.
  • XVIII. To stop bleeding at the Nose.
  • XIX. For the Falling Evil in an Horse.
  • XX. For a Cough old or new, or the heaving of his Lungs.
  • XXI. For a Canker in the Tongue.
  • XXII. For a Vein that swells upon letting Blood
  • XXIII. For a Navel Gall,
  • XXIV. For a horse that pisses Blood.
  • XXV. For the Mules.
  • XXVI. For a Horse burnt with a Mare.
  • XXVII. A precious Oyntment that will cure any Wound, old or new.
  • XXVIII. For a Farcyon.
  • XXIX. For Solebatted with going without Shooes.
  • XXX. For Pricking in the Foot.
  • XXXI. An Oyntment to skin or heal any Wound or hurt
  • XXXII. To take down any Swelling being new, whether it be broke or not broke.
  • XXXIII. For a Quitterbone, though far gone and hard to cure.
  • XXXIV. For a Foundred Horse.
  • XXXV. For a Splent.
  • XXXVI. For a through great Splent.
  • XXXVII. For a Splent great or small, an excellent one.
  • XXXVIII. A Water to cure any old Wound, or green, in Man or Beast.
  • XXXIX. A Receipt to cure a Horse Pestilence.
    • Another Receipt for a Febula, or Horse-Pestilence.
  • XL. For the Yellows.
  • XLI. For a Chest-Founder.
  • XLII. For a swelling under the Jaws, when a Horse hath the strangling.
  • XLIII. For a Sore.
  • XLIV. To make a Horse piss, that is troubled with the Wind-Colick, or Obstruction in the Bladder.
  • XLV. To cure a Poll Evil, which grows upon the top of the Head.
  • XLVII. For a Fistula.
  • XLVII. For the Plague, Pestilence, Garget, or Murrain, in Horse or Beast only.
  • XLVIII. For a Horse or Cow that is poysoned by licking of Venome, or is over-gorged with Clover-grass, or Turnips, by greedy feeding.
  • XLIX. For a Horse or Cow that maketh Red∣water.
  • L. For the mad Staggers.
  • LI. For the Water Farcion.
  • LII. For the Ives.
  • LIII. For the Wind-Colick.
  • LIV. For a Film in an Horses Eye.
  • LV. To cure a Mallender.
  • LVI. For an Apoplexy, or Palsey.
  • LVII. For a Fareine that lyes all over the Bo∣dy of a Horse.
  • LVIII. For a Farcion only in the Neck or Head of a Horse.
  • LIX. A rare Medicine to make an Horse scour that is Hide-bound, that is Moulten, that does not thrive nor fill: and to lay his Coat if it stand right up.
  • LX. To stop a thin Scouring in Cow or Bullock, or any other Creature.
  • LXI. To kill Lice in Cattel.
  • LXII. To make Hoofs that are brittle grow quickly, and to make them firm and strong.
  • LXIII. To heal a Navil-Gall, Sore-back, or a Set-fast.
  • LXIV. For a Sinew-strain in the Fore or After-Leg.
  • LXV. A Scouring Drink.
  • LXVI. For Brittle Hoofs.
  • LXVII. For a Horse that is Moulten, and breaks out.
  • LXVIII. A Scouring Drink to cleanse his Kid∣neys if they be pained.
  • LXIX. For a fleshy Knot that is moving from the place where it grows.
  • LXX. For a Cow that hath a Garget in her Dug or Udder.
  • LXXI. For a Ring-bone.
  • LXXII. Another for the same.
  • LXXIII. Observations concerning the order∣ing of Cattle, as Cowes, &c. in the time of feeding, when there is great fulness of Grass: As in the Months of May, June, and July.
  • LXXIV. For a Bite, Blow, or Film in the Eye.
  • LXXV. A precious Oyntment for an Horses Eye, either for Bite, Blow, or Film.
  • LXXVI. A gallant Scouring to make a Beast thrive, Winter or Summer.
  • LXXVII.
  • LXXVIII. For a Strangling in the Spring.
  • LXXIX. To kill Lice in Horses or Cows.
  • LXXX. To make a Horse Stale or Piss.
  • LXXXI. For an inward Bruise with any Fume or Stub.
  • LXXXII. For a Horse that hath rent his flesh about the Belly or elsewhere, or for any new wound.
  • LXXXIII. For an old Cold with a Cough.
  • LXXXIV. For a strangling in the Guts: the Cough of the Lungs: For clearing the Pipes, and giving much breath.
  • LXV. To waste the Kernels under the Horses Throat, cheaply and suddenly.
  • LXXX. For a Cough of the Lungs.
  • LXXXVII. For a Broken-winded Horse.
  • LXXXVIII. For a Cold in a Beast, either in Winter or Summer.
  • LXXXIX. For the Scratches.
  • XC. For the Scratches.
  • XCI. Another for the same.
  • XCII. For Foot-foundring.
  • XCIII. For the Garget in the Throat of a Cow.
  • XCIV. Another for a Garget at the Root of the Tongue of a Cow.
  • XCV. For the Garget in the Guts of a Cow, or Bullock.
  • XCVI. For the over-flowing of the Gall, in a Cow or Bullock.
  • XCVII. For a Horse or Cow that makes Red∣water.
  • XCVIII. For a Horse that is Back-swanckt, or for a Strain in the Kidneys, being over-bur∣thened in the Hinder▪part, or in Race-run∣ning, or by being over-strained in the Back.
  • C. For a Canker in the Head.
  • CI. For a dry scurvy Mange, although it be from the Head to the Tayl, of Horse, Cow, Dog, or any thing else.
  • CII. For a blow or any other mischance, which causeth a swelling about the Head, Face, Jaws or Chaps.
  • CIII. For a Navil-Gall.
  • CIV. For hard Kernels under the Throat.
  • CV. For a New Sinew strain.
  • CVI. For an old Sinew-strain that is swelled and hard, on Fore or After-legs.
  • CVII. For any old, hard, and crushy Knobs, or Swellings, that have been a long time, let them be never so hard. Do thus,
  • CVIII. For old broken Knees much swelled and hard, that have been long healed up.
  • CIX. For a Strain in the Pastern, Back, or Sinews.
  • CX. How to boyl the Charge of Sope and Bran∣dy to a Salve.
  • CXI. For a Swelling that comes by reason of Wind or Cold getting into the Wound, how to take it away, whether it be in the Head or any part of the Body.
  • CXII. For a hot Inflammation or soft Swelling▪ that is new done, whether broken or not bro∣ken.
  • CXIII. For a Bruise or Bite upon the Cods of an Horse, that cause them to swell much.
  • CXIV. To keep in your Medicine, and keep out the Wind.
  • CXV. Directions.
  • CXVI. For a Shoulder-strain.
  • CXVII. For an old Strain in the Shoul∣der.
  • CXVIII For the Hurle bone out of Joynt, or a little miscarried.
  • CXIX. For a stifle in the Stifling-bone.
  • CXX. A speedy Cure for a Sinew-strain, old or new.
  • CXXI. For a Poll-Evil in the Head of an Horse.
  • CXXII. For a through Splent on both sides of the Leg, by some called a Great Bone-Sru∣pin.
  • CXXIII. For a Mallender.
  • CXXIV. For a looseness in the Body of any Beast.
  • CXXV. For a Cold in Summer, or when a Horse doth not fill.
  • CXXVI. For a sudden great heat, as in Hunt∣ing, Racing, or hard Riding, that the Hor∣ses Grease is melted.
  • CXXVII. For a Foundred Horse.
  • CXXVIII. For a Back swanckt in the Fillet of the Loin: or for a Wrench in the Back-bone, about the Navel place: or for a strain in the Kidneys, by being over-burthened in the Hinder-parts, or over-strained in the Kidneys in Race-running.
  • CXXIX. For a new Wound made with a Stake, or such like thing, Stub or Fork.
  • CXXX. For a Stub in the Foot or Heel: For an over-reach with the Toe of the After∣foot, upon the Heel of the Fore-foot: A Tread or Cut above the Hair, or when a Stone hath cut a Horses Leg.
  • CXXXI. For a Horse that is prickt in the shooing, and afterwards festred.
  • CXXXII. For a Horse that is prickt with a long Channel Nail.
  • CXXXIII. For a Brittle Hoof.
  • CXXXIV. For an Horses Yard, foul and furr'd without, so that he pisses in the Cod.
  • CXXXV. When a Horse doth not thrive, and when his Coat stands staring and doth not lye smooth: For an inward dry Sur∣fet, that causeth the Cods to swell, some∣times continually, and sometimes betwixt times. When the Grease is melted, and afterwards set and dried in his Body, and his Legs sometimes swelled. For an Horse that is Gaunt and will not fill, or is Gut-foundred, when he is Costive in Body and Dungs small. To procure a Sto∣mack. The following Directions are ad∣mirable good for all these following Di∣stempers.
  • CXXXVI. For a moist, hot, running Surfet, that falls out of his Body into his Fore-legs, and sometimes into his After-legs, and some∣times into all four.
  • CXXXVII. To make a Horse Stale free, and constantly.
  • CXXXVIII. To cure the Vives under the roots of the Ears.
  • CXXXIX. For the Squinsey, or Strangling, or Cold that breaks out at the Nose, and hath run a year.
  • CXL. For a Horse that hath a dry Surfet in his Body, and falls away in his Flesh: That hath a weak Cough, and is in a Con∣sumption.
  • CXLI. For the Yellows.
  • CXLII. For the Staggers.
  • CXLIII. For a cold newly taken.
  • CXLIV. For an old Cold, which causeth the Horse to run sometimes at one Nostril, and sometimes at both, and hath done for a year together, and is knotted with Kernels under his Throat between his Jaws.
  • CXLV. For a Canker in the Mouth.
  • CXLVI. To cure a Foul, Rank, Pocky Farcion, which runs all over an Horse, or in any par∣ticular part of his Body.
  • CXLVII. For a Farcey in the Head.
  • CXLVIII. For a swelling in the Fore-legs, or After-legs.
  • CXLIX. For a Swelling in the Brisket, below the Chest.
  • CL. For a Swelling with a Blow upon the Chest or any other part.
  • CLI. For a Farcey that is broken out in the Legs.
  • CLII. For a Water-Farcey.
  • CLIII. For a Button-Farcey.
  • CLIV. To cure the Cords; which is when an Horse can neither lift up his Head to the Rack, nor put his Head to the Ground, no not to his Knees.
  • CLV. For a Stumbling Horse.
  • DLVI. How to make Diapente.
  • CLVII. How to make Horse-spice.
  • CLVIII. To Cure a Ring-bone.
  • CLIX. For a Spavin as big as an Egg.
  • CLX. To make a Star in an Horses Fore-head.
  • CLXI. For the Pains or Scratches, or rotten broken Cuts, putrified Sinews, this Receipt will cure in a wonderful manner.
  • CLXII. For the Strangullion in an Horse.
  • CLXIII. For Fretting or Griping in an Horses Belly.
  • CLXIV. To kill Botts or Worms.
  • CLXV. For a Fever in a Horse.
  • CLXVI. For a dry inward Mange.
  • CLXVII. To stop bleeding at the Nose, or in the Mouth, where the Fleam or Knife hath cut a great Gash: Or when you have cut the Vein in a Quitter-bone, and it bleed that you know not how to stop it.
  • CLXVIII. For a Cold new or old, or a Cough wet or dry.
  • CLXIX. For a young Horse that hath taken a new Cold.
  • CLXX. For a new taken Cold with a Coughing?
  • CLXXI. For the Botts.
  • CLXXII. For a Blood-Spavin.
  • CLXXIII. For an old Cold.
  • CLXXIV. For a Cold with a violent Cough.
  • CLXXV. A rare Receipt to cause an Horse to vomit.
  • CLXXVI. For a Curb.
  • CLXXVII. For a Quitterbone, Old or New.
  • CLXXVIII. A Preparation before you give the Black Drink for the Glanders, in the next following Receipt.
  • CLXXIX. The Black drink for the Glan∣ders.
  • CLXXX. To cure the Glanders running at the Nose: Also all Colds, and Rheums.
  • CLXXXI. For a Fistula or Gangrene in the Foot, by reason of some Channel-Nail, which hath lain long and deep in the Foot, that breaks out above the Hoof, and causeth the sole of the foot to come out, and causeth the Leg and Pastern to swell very much.
  • CLXXXII. For a strain in the Coffin joynt, or a Sive-bone in the Socket of the Hoof.
  • CLXXXIII. A Purge for filthy Slime, and to carry away the peccant Humours, which Surfets have ingendred in the Body.
  • CLXXXIV. For an Horse that is sick and sur∣feited of Colds, whether in Winter or in Summer.
  • CLXXXV. For a strain in the Pastern of an Horse.
  • CLXXXVI. For an Horse-Cough.
  • CLXXXVII. A suppository to supple the Guts, to dissolve and send forth all dry and hot Excrements.
  • CLXXXVIII. Another Suppository to be gi∣ven, that you dare not without peril of his life, give him any thing else inward∣ly: Then give him this.
  • CLXXXIX. A Suppository to purge Flegm.
  • CXC. A Suppository to purge Choler.
  • CXCI. A Suppository to purge Melan∣choly.
  • CXCII. Another Suppository.
  • CXCIII. Directions for Suppositories.
  • CXCIV. To kill Worms.
  • CXCV. To purge by Grass in Summer.
  • CXCVI. A Glister for a Sick, surfeited, Dis∣eased Horse.
  • CXCVII. A Purge.
  • CXCVIII. Another Purge.
  • CXCIX. Another Purge.
  • CC. Of Glisters and their use
  • CCII. What a Decoction is.
  • CCII. What quantity òf Broth or Decoction is put in to make a Glister.
  • CCIII. For the quantity of Drugs put into a Glister.
  • CCIV. What time is fit for an Horse to keep his Glister.
  • CCV. The length of the Glister-pipe.
  • CCVI. A Glister for a Horse that is bound in his body and cannot dung.
  • CCVI. For another Glister
  • CCVIII. A Glister restringent to stop loosness.
  • CCIX. A Glister for a fat foul-bodied Horse, that is newly taken from Grass, or for a∣ny sick, surfeited, diseased Horse.
  • CCX. A Glister for Melancholy.
  • CCXI. A Glister to be given in case of a de∣sperate Sickness: It helpeth Fevers: is good against the Pestilence and all langui∣shing Diseases, most excellent against Surfeits either by Provender or otherwise: And will give great strength in short time, if it be rightly made and carefully given.
  • CCXII. A Glister for the Pestilence and all Fevers.
  • CCXIII. A Lenitive Glister.
  • CCXIV. A Glister for the Collick or any Sick∣ness or Gripings in the Gutts or Belly.
  • CCXV. Of Sickness in Horses.
  • CCXVI. Of the Head-ach, Frenzy or Staggers.
  • CCXVII. Of the Sleeping evil.
  • CCXVIII. Of the Falling Evil, Planet-struck, Night-Mare, or Palsey.
  • CCXIX. Of the general Cramp, or Convulsion of Sinews.
  • CCXX. For any Cold or Cough whatsoever, wet or dry, or for any Consumption or Putre∣faction of the Lungs whatsoever.
  • CCXXI. Of the Running Glanders, or mourn∣ing of the Chine.
  • CCXXII. Of Hide-bound or Consumption of the Flesh.
  • CCXXIII. Of the Breast-pain or any other sickness proceeding from the heart, as the Antocow and such like.
  • CCXXIV. Of Tired Horses.
  • CCXXV. Of Diseases in the Stomack, as Sur∣feits, lothing of Meat or Drink.
  • CCXXVI. Of foundring in the Body.
  • CCXXVII. Of the Hungry Evil.
  • CCXXVIII. Of the Diseases of the Liver, as Inflammations, Obstructions, and con∣sumptions.
  • CCXXIX. Of the Diseases of the Gall, and spe∣cially of the Yellows.
  • CCXXX. Another for the same.
  • CCXXXI. Of the Sickness of the Spleen.
  • CCXXXII. Of the Dropsie, or evil Habit of the Body.
  • CCXXXIII. Of the Collick, Belly-ach, or Belly-bound.
  • CCXXXIV. Of the Lask or Bloody-Flux.
  • CCXXXV. Of the falling out of the Funda∣ment.
  • CCXXXVI. Of Bots and Worms of all sorts.
  • CCXXXVII. Of pain in the Kidneys; pain to Piss, or the Stone.
  • CCXXXVIII. Of Pissing of Blood.
  • CCXXXIX Of the Strangullion.
  • CCXL. Of the Colt-Evil, Muttering of the Yard, Falling of the Yard shedding of the Seed.
  • CCXLI. Of the particular Diseases in Mares, as Barrenness, Consumption, rage of Love, casting Foles, hardness to Fole: and how to make a Mare cast her Fole.
  • CCXLII. Of drinking Venom, as Horse-Lea∣ches, Hens-Dung, &c.
  • CCXLIII. Of Suppositories, Glisters, and Purgations.
  • CCXLIV Of Neesings and Frections.
  • CCXLV. Of the Diseases, in the Eyes, as wá∣tery Eyes, Blood-shotten Eyes, Dim Eyes, Moon Eyes, Strokes on the Eyes, Warts in the Eyes, Inflammation in the Eyes, Pearl, Pin, Web, or Haw in the Eye.
  • CCXLVI. Of the Impostume in the Ear, Poll-Evil, Fistula, Swelling after Blood-letting, any Galled Back, Canker in the Withers, Setfast, Wens, Navel-Gall, or any hollow Ulcer.
  • CCXLVII. Of the Vives.
  • CCXLVIII. Of the strangle, or any Boyl or Botch, or other Impostume whatsoever.
  • CCXLIX. Of the Canker in the Nose, or any other part of the Body.
  • CCL. Of Stanching of Blood, whether it be at the Nose, or proceeding from any Wound.
  • CCLI. Of Pain in the Teeth, or loose Teeth.
  • CCLII. Of Diseases in the mouth, as blood-Rifts, Liggs, Lampras, Camery, Inflammay∣tion, Tongue burnt, or the Barbes.
  • CCLIII. Of the Crick in the Neck.
  • CCLIV. Of the falling of the Crest, Mangi∣ness in the Mane, or the shedding of the Hair.
  • CCLV. Of pain in the Withers.
  • CCLVI. Of Swaying the Back, or weakness in the Back.
  • CCLVII. Of the Itch in the Tail. or the general Scab or Manginess; or of the Farcy.
  • CCLVIII. Of Foundring in the Feet.
  • CCLIX. Of any Halting which cometh by Strain or Stroke, either before or behind, from the Shoulder or Hip down to the Hoof.
  • CCLX. Of the Splent, Curb, bone bone-Spavin, or any Knob, or bony Excression, or Ring-bone.
  • CCLXI. Of the Mallander, Selander, Pains, Scratches, Mellet, Mules, Crown Scabs, and such like.
  • CCLXII. Of any Upper Attaint, or Nether-Attaint, or any hurt by Over-reaching.
  • CCLXIII. Of Wind-Gauls.
  • CCLXIV. Of interfering or Shackle-gauls, or any Gaulings.
  • CCLXV. Of the Infirmities of Hoofs, as false Quarters, Loose Hoofs, and Hoof-bound, Hoof-running, Hoof brittle, Hoof hurt, Hoof soft, Hoof hard, or generally to pre∣serve Hoofs.
  • CCLXVI. Of the Blood Spavin, or Hough bony, or any other unnatural Swelling; from what cause soever it proceedeth.
  • CCLXVII. Of Wounds in the Feet, as Gra∣velling, Pricking, Fig, Retrait, or Cloying.
  • CCLXVIII. Hurts on the Cornet, as the Quit∣terbone or Matlong.
  • CCLXIX. To draw out a Stub or Thorn.
  • CCLXX. Of the Anbury, or Tetter.
  • CCLXXI. Of the Gords or String-halt.
  • CCLXXII. Of Spur-galling, and fretting the Skin and Hair.
  • CCLXXIII. Of Sinews being cut.
  • CCLXXIV. Of Knots in the Joynts.
  • CCLXXV. Of Venemous Wounds, or bitings with a Mad Dog, Tushes of a Boar, Ser∣pents, or such like.
  • CCLXXVI. Of Lice or Nits.
  • CCLXXVII. Of defending an Horse from Flies.
  • CCLXXVIII. Of broken Bones, or Bones out of Joynt.
  • CCLXXIX. A most famous Receipt, to make an Horse that is lean, and full of inward sickness, sound and fat in fourteen daies.
• Books, Printed and Sold by Henry Twyford,
• Books Printed for, and Sold by Nathaniel Brook, at the Angel in Cornhil near the Royal Exchange.