The country-man's guide or plain directions for ordering. Curing. Breeding choice, use, and feeding. Of horses, cows, sheep, hoggs, &c. Adorn'd with sculptuers, shewing the proper places in the bodies of the said several beasts, where the said distempers do usually happen. Published for the publick good, by W.W.

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Title: The country-man's guide or plain directions for ordering. Curing. Breeding choice, use, and feeding. Of horses, cows, sheep, hoggs, &c. Adorn'd with sculptuers, shewing the proper places in the bodies of the said several beasts, where the said distempers do usually happen. Published for the publick good, by W.W.
Author: Winstanley, William, 1628?-1698.
Publication: London :: printed for S. Lee, stationer, over against the post-office in Lombard-street,; 1679.
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Subject terms: Domestick animals -- Early works to 1800.; Horses -- Early works to 1800.; Swine -- Early works to 1800.; Sheep -- Early works to 1800.; Cows -- Early works to 1800.
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49. Venemous Grubs swallowed.

If the Oxen, Kine or Horses, feeding in the Pasture, have swallowed down little Grubs, which lie under the Herbs, and are called by the Latins Buprestis, of which they sometimes swell up, burst and die, then the Oxe-keeper must let them presently drink Cows-milk, or a Decoctum of dry Figs, or of Dates boiled in Wine; and give them sharp and strong Cli∣sters.