A new method, and extraordinary invention, to dress horses, and work them according to nature as also, to perfect nature by the subtility of art, which was never found out, but by ... William Cavendishe ...

About this Item

Title
A new method, and extraordinary invention, to dress horses, and work them according to nature as also, to perfect nature by the subtility of art, which was never found out, but by ... William Cavendishe ...
Author
Newcastle, William Cavendish, Duke of, 1592-1676.
Publication
London :: Printed by Tho. Milbourn,
1667.
Rights/Permissions

To the extent possible under law, the Text Creation Partnership has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above, according to the terms of the CC0 1.0 Public Domain Dedication (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). This waiver does not extend to any page images or other supplementary files associated with this work, which may be protected by copyright or other license restrictions. Please go to http://www.textcreationpartnership.org/ for more information.

Subject terms
Horses -- Grooming.
Horsemanship -- Early works to 1800.
Link to this Item
http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A53074.0001.001
Cite this Item
"A new method, and extraordinary invention, to dress horses, and work them according to nature as also, to perfect nature by the subtility of art, which was never found out, but by ... William Cavendishe ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A53074.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 10, 2024.

Pages

RARE RECEIPTS, JƲLIPS, GLISTERS, and POTIONS, For Cooling a HORSE OVER-HEATED BY VIOLENT EXERCISE: Promised Before.

FOr a Horse that hath a Cold, Take Half a Pound of Honey, Half a Pound of Treakle, mix these together: Then take an Ounce of

Page 136

Cumminseed, beaten into Powder; an Ounce of Liquorish Pouder, an Ounce of Bay-Berries bea∣ten into Pouder, and an Ounce of Anniseeds in Pouder: Then mix all these Powders together, and put so much of them as shall make it Thick as a Hasty-Pudding. After the Horse is Ridden, give it him with a Stick to Lick Off; and if he have a Cold, give him of it, both before, and af∣ter, he is Ridden; for, no Better Medicine there is not.

Do you have questions about this content? Need to report a problem? Please contact us.