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 ...

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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.
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Horses -- Grooming.
Horsemanship -- Early works to 1800.
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"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 May 6, 2024.

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A Julip for Feavers to Bind the Body, if it be Loose.

TAke one Ounce of Ivory, and one Ounce of Harts — Horn; Raspe them, and put them in three Paris — Pintes of Water, and let them Boyl together, until the Half be Consumed; then Strain it through a Cloth: And put to this Liquor, four Ounces of the best Juce of Barberies, and one Ounce and a half of Sirrup of Pomgra∣nets. This is to be Used to Cool.

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These are Excellent for Feavers in Horses as well as Men: only you must give a Third, or a Fourth Part more to Horses, since they have Stronger Bodies; else the Disease is all one, and the Remedy is all one: And this Method will Cure both Man and Horse; and all other Wayes are Pernicious to them Both, which is either Physick that Purges, or Hott-Cordials; only when he is Cured, then a Purge, as I said before, to take away the Dreggs that Remain; and no more.

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