CXIII. For a Bruise or Bite upon the Cods of an Horse, that cause them to swell much.
FIrst, Bath them well in warm Whey or Milk, but Whey is best, let it be as hot as
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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- 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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- 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 21, 2025.
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the Horse can endure it, bath it for three or four daies together; then make a Bag to put his Cods therein to keep them warm, anoint his Cods with the Oyl of Populeon cold, once or twice a day, till you see the swelling of his Cods abate, which when you see, apply the Charge of Crown-sope and Brandy-wine, to take down the rest of the swelling, and to knit the Veins and Strings of his Cods again: Lay it on hot, and heat it well in, three or four daies after ride him into a Ri∣ver, if you can, or Pit, up to the belly, and you shall see it fall in a short time. If the Cods be swell'd much, and it have been long done, and is hard, then do not meddle with it. Proved.