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.

The TABLE of the Diseases and Cures.

• THE Nature, Temperature and Virtue of most Simples, set down Alphabetically. From page 175. to p. 224

A.

• Accloyed is Prickt. vide Prickt.
• An Advertisement, not only about the several sorts of Aloes, how you may know and distinguish them one from Another, but also some Directions for the Physicking of Horses, and for Dressing of Wounds. From p. 226 to 228
• An Advertisement touching the Ʋse∣fulness, not only of the Table of Simples, but also of the General Simples set down one after another before every Disease. 229
• Antimony crude or raw, the use of it declared. 232
• Aches, Numbness, or any swelling or weakness in any Joynt or Sinew, Ge∣neral Simples good for them. ib.
• Aloes, how to make into Purges and Scourings, See the manner of it af∣ter the best Receipt for the Glanders, at the latter End of the Book.
• St. Anthonies Fire, General Things good for the Cure of it. 233
• Particular Receipts good for the same. 234
• Anticor or Heart-Sickness, General things good for the Cure of it. ib.
• Particular Receipts good for the same. ib.
• Attaint Upper or Nether, General Things good for the Cure of it. 235
• Particular Receipts good for the same. ib.
• Aristes, vide Rats-Tails.
• Apoplexie, vide Palsey.
• Adders Tongue Ointment, vide Ointments
• Anberry cured 279
• Aloes, several excellent Ways how you are to make it up into Purges. 414 and 415

B.

• Broken Wind, General Simples good to help it. 251
• Particular Receipts good for the same. ib.
• Breath short, General Simples good to help it. 252
• Particular Receipts good for the same. 253
• Blood-Spaven, General Things good for the Cure of it. 260
• Particular Receipts good for the same. 261
• Bone Spaven Cured ib▪ and 379
• Back Galled to Cure. From 283 to 285
• Bruises or Swellings, either inward or outward, General Simples good for the Cure of them. 285
• Particular Receipts good for the same▪ 286
• Bruises and Strains, Observations upon the Cure of them. 293
• ...

• ... Back-Wrench't, weak or swayed, General Things good for the Cure of it 330 and 331
• Barbes cured 331
• Bots or Wormes, General Things good for the destroying of them. 303
• Particular Receipts good for the same. 304
• Bangle-Eares help'd, vide First Part, 121
• Bleeding, General Simples good to stanch it. 306
• Particular Receipts good for the same. 307
• Binding, Simples in General, which is good to stop a Loosness, Lask or bloody Flux, ib.
• Particular Receipts good for the same. 308
• Biting of a mad Dog, to Cure, General things good for it. 312
• Particular Receipts good for the same, ib.
• Blood-letting, swelling after it to cure, be it never so bad. 379
• Burning or Scalding, either by Shot, Gun-powder or Wilde Fire, General Things good for the Cure of them. 380
• Particular Receipts good for the same. ib.
• A Bath for swelled Cods. 387
• Botch in the Groin to cure. 388
• Blisters cured. 389
• Bones broken and out of Joynt cured. 391
• A Bath very good for the same. 392
• Back-swayed to cure. 399

C.

• A Caution about Aloes. 226
• Comprehensive terms explained. 230 and 231
• Cold and Hot Ointments repeated ••ver again, and the Vertues that belonged unto them made known. 231
• Cramps or Convulsions of the Si∣news, General things good to help them. 239
• Particular Receipts good for the same. 240
• Colds and Coughs of all sorts, Ge∣neral Simples good for the Cure of them. 241
• Particular Receipts good for all the sorts of them. 242 to 250
• Curb to cure, general Things good for it. 265
• Particular Receipts good for the same. ib.
• Cib'd Heels, vide Scratches, for what cures them cures these. 266
• Crepances, vide Rat-tails.
• Camery, vide Frounce
• Canker cured 302 and 318
• Canker, vide Fistula, and all other run∣ning and foul Sores to cure.
• Colt-Evil, General Things good for the cure of it. 330
• Consumption, General Simples good for the cure of it. 333
• Particular Receipts good for the same. 334
• Cords, which is stumbling, General Things good for the Cure of it. 341
• Cleansers of the Body from all manner of foul Humours, General Simples

• good for it, 344
• Cholick or Stone, General Simples good for the Cure of it 362
• Particular Receipts good for the same. ib.
• Crown-scab, general things good for the Cure of it 372
• Cut-Sinews, general Simples good for to help them 373 and 374
• Costiveness to help 378 and 381
• Casting forth of his drink, to Cure. 383
• Crick in the Neck, general things good for the Cure of it 384
• Crest Fallen raised up again 385
• Cods swelled, to Cure, general things good for them 386
• Particular Receipts good for the same. ib. and 387
• Chops, Clifts or Rifts, see for the cure of it in the Letter C. in the Alpha∣betical Table of the Diseases of a horse.
• Cooling Simples 395
• Of Clifts and Cracks in the Heels; see for Scratches, for what cures them cures these
• Cleansers of all Sores by washing them, see the First Part.
• Charges of all sorts, see also in the First Part for them.

D.

• Directions for the Drenching and Phy∣sicking of horses 225 and 226
• Further Directions for the same. 228 and 416
• Diseases and Infirmities of Mares to Cure 332
• Drawers forth of any Stub, Thorn or Nail, either in the Foot, or any other part of the Body 340
• Driers up of all manner of moist hu∣mors, General Simples good for them 341
• Dropsey, general things good for the cure of it 363
• Particular Receipts good for the same. 364
• See for more Simples good for the Cure of it in the First Part
• Diseases in a horse to prevent the whole year, a very good Receipt to pre∣serve him sound 382
• Casting forth of his Drink, General things good for to help it 383

E.

• Eaters away of proud Flesh, General things good for it 277
• An Ointment for the same purpose. ib.
• Enterfering or Shackle-Gall to Cure 284
• Eyes watery, Eyes blood-shotten, Wart in them, Inflammation Pearl, Pin or Web, general things good for all the Diseases of them 288
• Particular Receipts good for all the dis∣eases of them, from 290 to 293
• Eares Imposthumated, general Things good for the cure of them 348
• Particular Receipts good for them. ib.

F.

• Falling-Evil or Planet-struck general things good for the cure of it 239
• Particular Receipts good for the same. ib.
• ...

• ... Foundering, General things good for the cure of it. 271
• Particular Receipts good for the same 272 and 399
• Feltick is no other then a Galled Back, vide Back-Galled 283 to 285,
• Fraying or Stiffness taken in the Legs vide Imperfections of the Legs.
• Frounce or Camery to cure 301
• Falling of the Fundament, General things good for it 311
• Particular Receipts good for the same. ib.
• Fistula, Canker, or any other running sore to cure, general Things good for it. 319 and 375
• Particular Receipts good for the same. 320
• Feavers of all sorts, general Simples good for the Cure of them 321
• Particular Receipts good for the same. 322
• See more in the First Part for the several sorts of them 229 to 230
• Farcey, general things inwardly Given for the cure of it 303
• General things applied outwardly for the cure of it 224
• Particular Receipts inwardly given, and outwardly applied for the cure of this Disease, from 223 to 328
• Frush running, or Rotten, general things good for the cure of it 328
• Falling of the Yard, General Simples good for the cure of it 332
• False Quarters cured 335
• Frenzie or Madness, General Things good for the cure of it. 354
• Flies to keep from coming to a Horses Head to vex and trouble him 369
• Fallen Crest or Crest-Fallen, to raise up again 385
• Fig, General things good for the Cure of it 389
• Falling Evil or Falling Sickness. 397
• General Simples given inwardly for it. ib.
• A Particular Receipt for the same. ib.
• Flaps cured 418
• Flanks, vide Wrinch in the Back.

G.

• Glanders, General things good for the cure of it 254
• Particular Receipts good for the same. ib. and 413.
• The best Receipt that is for the Cure of this Disease is in 414
• Glanders stopt for present sale 413
• Galled or swayed Back to Cure, Ge∣neral things good for it, 283
• Particular Receipts good for the same 284
• Garded or swelled Legs, whether by Grease or any other Accident cured 299
• Gall overflowed, general things good for the cure of it. 329
• Gangreen cured, General things good for it. ib.
• ...

• Griping or Fretting of the Guts, Cho∣lick or Stone, General Things good for the Cure of it. 362 and 363
• Particular Receipts good for the same. ib.
• Graveling, General Things good for it. 364
• Grease Molten, General Things good for it. ib.
• Particular Receipts good for the same. 365
• Grease fallen into the Legs to Cure. ib.
• A very good Purge for it. 318
• Gigs, Bladders or Flaps to cure. 418

H.

• Hide-bound, General Things good for the Cure of it. 258
• Particular Receipts good for the same. ib.
• Hard swellings cured. 278
• Head purged, vide perfumes in the first part good for it.
• Halting, vide Strains of all sorts
• Hair made to grow. 318 and 346
• Hoofes, all the Imperfections of them cured. From 335 to 340
• Hurts in the Hoof, of what sort soever, General Things good for the Cure of them. ib.
• Humours dried up, general Things good for them. 341 and 344
• Humours dissolved. 343
• Humors to stop. ib.
• Humors to drive back. ib.
• Humors made thin ib.
• Humors purged 344
• Hair shedding from the Mane or Tail, General things to prevent it. 345
• Hair to take away, General Things good for it. ib.
• Particular Receipts for the same ib.
• Hair made black ib.
• Hair made yellow ib.
• Hardness mollified, General Things good for to do it 367
• Hens dung swallowed, or any other ve∣nomous things general Things good for the Cure of it 374 and 383
• Hough-bonney cured 389
• Hardness or Knots in the flesh 390
• Hot Simples 395
• Hip-shot 397
• Hurle-bone out of Joynt cured ib.

I.

• Joynts and Sinews, that hath in them any Ach or Numbness, Weakness or Swelling, General things good for them 232 and 233
• Particular Receipts good for the same. ib.
• Joynts, Arteries and Sinews, Com∣forted after Travel, Cold or pain. 259
• Infirmities of Mares to help 332
• ••mposthumations and Inflammations, hot or Cold, general Simples good for them 346 and 390
• Particular Receipts good for them. 34••
• Imposthumated Eares, general Things good for them 348
• ...

• Particular Receipts good for the same. ib.

K.

• Kidneys that hath ulcers in them cured. 360
• Kidneys bruised. 368
• Knots in the Joynts, or for Cramps and Inflammations general and particu∣lar, Receipts good for the same. 390

L.

• Legs swelled, general things good for the cure of them. 287
• Particular Receipts good for the same. ib. 288 and 300
• Lampass. 301
• Lameness of all sorts to help. 293 and 300
• Loosening Simples. 103. See more of this in the First Part. 154
• Lask or Looseness stopt, general things good for it. 307
• Particular Receipts good for the same. 308
• Lungs, general things good for them. 333
• Particular Receipts good for the same. 334
• Liver preserved, general Simples good for it. 335
• Lethargy or sleeping Evil, general things good for it. 354
• Particular Receipts good for the same. ib.
• Lice or Vermine killed, general things good for it. 369
• Particular Receipts good for the same. ib.
• Leprosie or Mange, general things good for to kill it. ib.
• Particular Receipts good for the same. 370
• Lust provoked. See for Simples good for the same in the First Part. 148

M.

• Mallender or Sellender, general things good for the cure of the m. 275
• Particular Receipts good for the same. 276
• Mattering of the Yard, or Running of the Reins. 331
• Mares, their several diseases to cure, 332
• Milk in Mares to increase. See the First Part for it. 148
• Mouth-sore, general things good for it. 368
• Mange or Leprosie. 369
• Milt cured. 388

N.

• Night-Mare. 239
• Neesing-powder. See the First Part for Perfumes for the Head.
• Navel-gall, general things good for it. 353
• Particular Receipts good for the same. ib.

O.

• Oyl of Camomil, how to make for any grief in the Limbs, proceeding from a cold Cause. 230
• Oyl of Spike, how to make for all man∣ner of Sinew-strains and Pains, and Aches in the Limbs. ib.
• Oyl of Mastick, how to make for any cold Griefs ib.
• An Ointment for the Killing and Sheal∣ing

• all manner of Scabs. 270
• O••••tments, general Simples good to put into them for the cure of all manner of Wounds. 279
• Particular Receipts good for them. 280
• Observations upon dressing of Wounds. 281
• Observations upon bruises and strains. 293
• Observations on the Liver and Spleen, and general things good for them. 335
• Ointment of Theriacum, which is good for any Ach in the Joynts, Grief in the Hips, stifling Place, Legs, Pastern or any other Part of the Legs and Back, Sinew-strains only excepted. 394

P.

• Physicking of Horses, Observations and Directions for the use of it. 225 and 226
• Pursiveness or shortness of Breath, Ge∣neral Simples good for it. 252
• Particular Receipts good for the same. 253
• Planet-struck or Falling Evil, General Simples good for it. 239
• Particular Receipts good for the same. ib.
• Poison of all sorts expelled, General Simples good for it. 313
• Particular Receipts good for the same. 314
• Plague or Pestilence, General things good for it. ib.
• Particular Receipts good for the same. 315
• Pissing of Blood, General Simples good for it. 314
• Particular Receipts good for the same. 315
• Pol-Evil, General things good for it. 317
• Particular Receipts good for the same. ib.
• Pains; see Scratches, for what cures them cures these
• A Plaister to dry up any superfluous moisture, and to bind parts Loosened. 342
• Prickt 396
• Particular Receipts good for the same. ib.
• Purgers of the Head. See the First Part
• Another Plaister to dry up any Swel∣ling, Wound, Wind-••all, Splint or Blad∣der in or about the Joints. 342
• Palsie 354
• Pissing or Staling with pain, General things good for it. 357
• Particular Receipts good for the same. 358
• A Plaister to lay upon the Wound to keep in the Tent or Salve. 377
• A Purgation for a Horse that is sick of Grease or Costiveness. 378
• Provokers of Lust, General Simples good for it in the First part. 148
• Purges of Aloes, several excellent Ways how to make them up. 414 and 415
• Physical Observations, 225 and 416

Q.

• Quarters false, to amend. 335
• Quitter-bone, General things good for the cure of it. 355
• Particular Receipts good for the same▪ ib.
• Quinsey or sore Throat, General things good for it. 3••8
• ...

• Quick-scab. 398

R.

• Running foul Sores. See for Fistula
• Running and rotten Frush, General things good for the cure of it. 328
• Running of the Reins. 331
• Ring-bone, general and particular Re∣ceipts good for the same. 356
• Red-water, general and particular Re∣ceipts good for the cure of the same. 357
• Ring-worm, general and particular Re∣ceipts good for the cure of it. 371 and 372
• Rot cured. 398

S.

• Sick Horses how ordered, see Directions how to do it in p. 225, 228 and 416
• Simples put down in Order one after an∣other before every disease, and also an Account of the Table of Simples. 229
• Stavers, Head-ach or Farcin, general and particular Receipts good for them. 235 and 236
• Stomach hot, general things good for to help it. 260
• Particular Receipts good for the same. ib.
• Spaven-blood to cure. ib.
• Spaven-bone to cure. 261
• Another which will not only take it a∣way, but also a Curb, Ring-bone or any other Boney Excression. 262
• Splint taken away, general and parti∣cular things good for it. 263
• Swellings of all sorts to cure. See the First Part for them.
• Scratches, general and particular Re∣ceipts good for them. 266 and 267
• Sellender or Mallender, general and particular Receipts good for them. 275 and 276
• Salves and Ointments for all manner of Swellings of Wounds, from 279 to 284
• Swellings dissolved without breaking. 283
• Shackle-Gall to help. 284 and 288
• Swellings and Bruises to cure, either in∣ward or outward. 285
• Swelled Legs of all sorts to cure, Ge∣neral things good for them. 287, 299 and 300
• Swellings by Shackle-gall to cure. 288
• Strains, observations upon them and up∣on Bruises. 293
• Strains of all sorts to cure, from 294 to 300
• Swelled or Garded Legs, whether by Grease, or any other Accident. 299
• Staling or Pissing of Blood, General and particular Receipts good for the same. 315
• Spleen, what it is, general and parti∣cular Receipts good for the same. 329 and 330
• Shedding of the Seed, General things good for it. 331
• Strangles, General and particular Re∣ceipts good for the same. 349 and 350
• Shoulder-strain or sprain. 351
• Sit-fast, General things good for it. 352
• Not staling and pissing of a horse, Ge∣neral and particular Receipts good

• for the same. 357 and 358
• Stone, General and particular Receipts good for the same. 360 and 361
• Stone cholick, General and particular Receipts good for the same. 362
• Surfeits, General and particular Receipts good for them. 366
• Scab, Te••tar or Ring-worm, General and particular Receipts good for the same. 371 and 372
• Surbated, General things good for it. 373
• Sinews, that are cut, prickt, bruised or shrunk, and for all Griefs belonging to them, General things good for them ib and 374
• See more General Things good for them in the First Part.
• Swelling by Blood-letting, though it be never so bad. 379
• Scaldings by Shot, Gun-powder or wilde-Fire; General and Particular Things good for the same. 380
• Swelled Cods, General and Particular Receipts good for the same. 386 and 387
• String-halt. 341 and 394
• Stumbling, vide Cords
• Simples that are hot. 395
• Simples that are Cooling. ib.
• Swayed back. 399
• Strengthn••ng Simples. See the Fi st Part for General Simples good for it 151
• Shoulder splaiting, which is a Tor•• Shoulder. 417
• Shoulder-pight, General things good for the Cure of it. ib
• Shoulder-pincht. See the Alphabetical Table that shews you where the Dis∣eases of a Horse do grow, and there you may find the Cure.
• Sores of all sorts to wash. See the First Part for them.
• Swellings of what Nature soever, either hard or soft. See the First Part for them. p. 149
• Sweat to cause. See the First Part. 150
• Shortness of Breath. See more of it in the First Part.
• Stinging and biting of venomous Beasts. See more of this also in the First Part.
• Sores and Ulcers of all sorts to Cure; General Simples good for them in the First Part.
• Suppository what it is. See the First Part. 146

T.

• Tired Horses, General and Particular things good for to help them. 259, 260
• Tetter-scab and Ring-bone, General and Particular Receipts good for them. 371 and 372
• Tongue of a Horse hurt, General and particular things good for the Cure of it. 374
• Teeth, all the infirmities of them cu∣red, viz pain in the Teeth, loose Teeth. Wolfes Teeth and Jaw Teeth. 384

V.

• Ulcers, Fistulaes and running Sores, general and particular Receipts good for the Cure of them. 319 and 320
• See more Simples good for them in

• the First Part. 151
• Urine caused to a Horse that cannot stale, General and particular Receipts good for the same. 357 and 358
• Ulcers in the Kidneys to Cure. 360
• Ulcers in any Part, General and parti∣cular things good for them 375
• Venomed things, general and parti∣cular Receipts good for the same. 374 and 383
• Vives, Avives or Fives, General and particular Receipts good for the cure of it. 376

W.

• Wind-broken, vide broken wind.
• Wind preserved 252
• A Water to wash and cleanse a Sore or Wound 377
• Another Water to cleanse and heal a Sore. 2••8
• A green Wound or Puncture cured. ib.
• Wen, or any other Excression taken a∣way in the Flesh. ib.
• Wounds, how to order and dress in the cure of them, and what Herbs are good to put into Wound Salves. 281, 282 and 283
• Wrench, or weakness in the Back, Ge∣neral things good for the cure of it. 300 and 301
• Worms of all sorts killed, General and particular Receipts good for the same. 303 and 304
• Wind-cholick, General things good for it. 377
• See for more general Simples good for it in the First Part, 150
• Wind galls General and particular Re∣ceipts good for the same. 377 and 378
• Wolfes-teeth cured. 384
• Withers wrung cured. 385
• Wounds by Shot cured. 391
• Womb, see for the several Infirmities of it in the Alphabetical Table of the Diseases of a Horse.
• Wart spungy. 279

Y.

• Yellow, General and particular Re∣ceipts good for it. 237 and 238
• Yellows black, general and particular Receipts good for the same. 239
• Yard mattering to cure. 331
• Yard fallen, General things good for it 332, 381 and 382
• The Way of Gathering, Drying and Pre∣serving of Simples and their Juices, viz. Roots, Barks, Leaves, Herbs, Flowers, Seeds and Juices. 402
• The Way of Making and Keeping all Ne∣cessary Compounds, viz. Electuaries, Pills, Waters, Ointments, Plaisters, Charges, Poultisses, Oyls, Syrups by Infusion, by Decoction and by Juices, from 403 to 408
• Roots hot in the first degree. 408
• Herbs hot in the second, hot in the third, hot in the fourth, Roots temperate, Roots cold in the first, cold in the se∣cond, cold in the third, cold in the fourth. Roots dry in the first, dry in the second, dry in the third, and dry in the fourth. Roots moist, from 408 to 409
• Hot Medicaments appropriate to the

• Parts of the Body, viz. Heating the Head, Heating the Throat, Heating the Breast and Lungs, Heating the Heart, Heating the Stomach, Heating the Liver, Heating the Spleen, Heat∣ing the Bowels, Heating the Reins and Bladder, Heating the Womb, Heat∣ing the Joynts, &c. from 409 to 410
• Cold Medicaments appropriate to the Parts of the Body, viz. Cooling the Head, Throat, Breast, Lungs, Heart, Stomach, Liver, Spleen, Reins▪ Bladder, Bowels and Joynts. 410 and 411
• The Properties of purging Medica∣ments, viz. Choler, Phlegm, watery Humors, by Vomit, by Urine; Pur∣ging the Throat, by Sweat, and by the Nose. 111 and 112
• The Properties of Altering Medica∣ments, viz. softning Simples, Loos∣ning Simples, Abolishing Simples, Binding Simples, Drying Simples, striking back Simples, Dissolving Simples, Cleansing Simples, Pain∣removing Simples, Simples that are good to clear the Wind, Humor-dis∣solving Simples, Simples that are good to expel poison, and Astonish∣ing Simples.