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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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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Winstanley, William, 1628?-1698.
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London :: printed for S. Lee, stationer, over against the post-office in Lombard-street,
1679.
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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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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A71265.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 13, 2024.

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52. Cholick.

Against the Griping or stinging of the Guts (Collick) and rumbling of the Bel∣ly, which is known when he sighs and stretcheth his Neck, Legs, or Belly, or that he lieth down and rises often again, and cannot stay in one place;

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this evil is occasioned by weariness, more in the Lent than in any other season: in this Sickness you must let him walk, being covered with a Wol∣len Cloth, and rub him in the Mouth with Garlick or bruised Onion, and let him swallow down the same either with a pint of Wine, or alone; some add thereunto Oyl of Mace, and give him Allum and Red Cabidge, being soaked in Wine with Mirrh, and take away the Flesh round about the Claws of the Feet▪ and prick him in the Tail, that he bleedeth.

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