The experienced farrier, or, Farring compleated In two books physical and chyrurgical. Bringing pleasure to the gentleman, and profit to the countrey-man. ... For here is contained every thing that belongs to a true horse-man, groom, farrier or horse-leach, viz. breeding; the manner how, the season when, ... and what are fit for generation; the feeder, rider, keeper, ambler and buyer; as also the making of several precious drinks, suppositories, balls, purgations, ... and directions how to use them for all inward and outward diseases. Also the paring and shooing of all manner of hoofes, ... The prices and vertues of most of the principal drugs, both simple and compound belonging to farring, ... also a large table of the virtues of most simples set down alphabetically, and many hundreds of simples placed one after another, for the cure of all ... diseases, ... with many new receipts of excellent use and value; never yet printed before in any author. By E.R. Gent.

Things good in General for the Crown Scab, which is a stinking and filthy Scab, breeding round about the corners of the Hoof.

Spread upon a Plaister this Ointment, take salt Bacon, Grease, Soot, Wax and Pitch molten together, and lay to it; and if the Flesh grows proud, eat it away with Verdegrease beaten to powder, or with burnt Allum, or scrapings of Harts-horn or Ox-horn made into powder, or take Sope and Hogs-Grease, and half a pound of Bolearmoniack, and a quarter of a pound of Turpentine mixed well together, and make a Plaister and bind it on fast, renewing it every day till it leave Running, and then wash it with strong Vineger made warm, and let him come into no water during the Cure; or to Bathe him with old Urine sod with salt, and that will dry up the Humours and heal it, or to wash it with green Copperas, Allum and Honey boiled together in fair water, and

wash the Sore with it three or four times a day, and this will both kill and heal it without any other Medicine.