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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- Horses -- Early works to 1800.
- Swine -- Early works to 1800.
- Sheep -- Early works to 1800.
- Cows -- Early works to 1800.
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Contents
- title page
- THE PREFACE TO THE READER.
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- A Table of several Diseases incident to Horses; with a Relation to the Printed Cut or Portraiture of a Horse in the First Page of this Book.
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INTRODUCTION: OR, General Instructions FOR THE Breeding, Ordering, or Man∣aging of Horses, &c.
- To know when a Mare desires to be covered.
- Age of a Stone-horse that covers a Mare, and of a Mare when she ought to be covered.
- Colts of such Colour as you fancy.
- The Quality of a Mare to be covered.
- Mares that are full, not to be put to labour.
- How to order a Mare that hath Cast.
- Marks of a good Colt.
- The Age of a Horse.
- The Teeth of the Horse.
- The Curing of Diseases in Horses.
- Lean-Horse.
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THE Country-Man's GUIDE.
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I. Head-ach, Staggers, and Madness - II. Mad, or Raging Love.
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III. Coldness, or Chilness in the Head. -
IV. Rheume, Catharre, Glanders, or Running of the Nose. -
V. Pin in the Eye. -
VI. Webb in the Eye. -
VI. Watring of the Eyes. -
VIII. Pain in the Eye. -
IX. Sore or Wounded Eyes. -
X. Eye-Scarrs, or Wounds. -
XI. Flying Worm. -
XII. Tooth-Ach -
XIII. Canker; or little Bubbles or Swellings of the Tongue. -
XIV. Falling, or want of the Palat. -
XV. Fever. -
XVI. Squinacy, Or Swelling in the Throat. -
XVII. Waxen Kernels, Struma, Choaking or Strangling. -
XVIII. Distemper of the Neck. -
XIX. Galled Neck. -
XX. Crick in the Neck. -
XXI. Distemper of the Lungs. -
XXII. Pursiness, or Short windness. -
XXIII.
Cough. -
XXIV. Ʋlcers, or Aposthumes of the Breast. -
XXV. Faintness. -
XXVI. Over heated. -
XXVII. The Ague. -
XXVIII. Venemous Creatures swal∣lowed down. -
XXIX. Lost Appetite or Stomach. -
XXX. Hen-Dung Swallowed. -
XXXI. Cholick, or Griping in the Guts. -
XXXII. Pain in the Belly. -
XXXIII. Obstruction or Oppilation. -
XXXIV. Falling of the Fundament. -
XXXV. Worms. -
XXXVI. Flux, or Looseness of the Belly. -
XXXVII. Bloody-Flux. -
XXXVIII. Jaundise. -
XXXIX. Stoppage of Ʋrine. -
XL. Difficulty in making Water. -
XLI. Strangury. -
XLII. Wolf, or over growing of the Flesh. -
XLIII. Rupture prevented. -
XLIV. Rupture cured. -
XLV. Biting of the Spider-mouse. -
XLVI. Swoln Codds. -
XLVII. Warts in the feet. -
LXVIII. Chaps in the Feet. -
XLIX. Of old Swellings. -
L. Bruised Back. -
LI. Galled-Back. -
LII. Biting of Flyes. -
LIII. To drive away the Flyes. -
LIV. Stiffness in the Joints. -
LV. Broken Loins. -
LVI Swelling of the Flank. -
LVII. Scabby, or Mangy. -
LVIII. Sinew-struck. -
LIX. Swoln Knees. -
LX. Cleft and Wounded Knees. -
LXI. Overgrowing of the Knee pan. -
LXII. Farcions, or Leprosie of the Leggs. -
LXIII. Chaps between the Joints & Leggs. -
LXIV. String-halt. -
LXV. Mallender. -
LXVI. Spavin. -
LXVII. Biting of a Mad Dog. -
LXVIII. Biting of a Water-Snake. -
LXIX. Ringbone. -
LXX. Fistula. -
LXXI. Overgrowing of the Hoofs. -
LXXII.
Figg. -
LXXIII. Founders. -
LXXIV. Pricking with a Nail. -
LXXV. Limping or Halting. -
LXXVI. The Wolf, or Boils and Knobs of the Foot. -
LXXVII. Scabbiness, Scurviness, or Kibe-heels. -
LXXVIII. Over-stepping.
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- A TABLE of several DISEASES incident to the OXE or COW, With relation to the Print∣ed Cut or Portraiture of an Oxe in the 65 Page of this BOOK.
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Of the Cow and Calf.
- Of the Calf.
- When to geld a Calf.
- Marks of a good Cow.
- Concerning the Oxe.
- All kind of Sicknesses.
- All sorts of Pain.
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1. Wearied Horns. -
2. Scaled HornsOr, 3. Split Horns. -
4. Broken Horn. -
5. Hair standing upright. -
6. Lice or Ticks. -
7. The Scab, Itch or Mange. -
8. Eating Sore in the Neck. -
9. Aposthumes or Sores. -
10. Boils or Mattering Ʋlcers. -
11. Hide-bound on the Legs. -
12. Hide-bound on the Ribs. -
13. Bewitched. -
14. Head-ach. -
15. Humour or Rheum. -
16. Swollen Eyes. -
17. Weeping Eyes. -
18. Running Eyes. -
19. Sharp Tears. -
20. Mattering Eyes. -
21. Dark and Cloudy Eyes. -
22. Shales or Nail of the Eyes. -
23. Spots or Webs in the Eyes. -
24. White on the Eyes. -
25. Warts upon the Eye-lids. -
26. Swollen Pallate, or Falling of the Pallate. -
27. Split Tongue. -
28. Knobs under the Tongue. -
29. Carnils under the Tongue. -
30. Swollen Almonds. -
31. To prevent Imposthumes in the Neck. -
32. Bruised Neck. -
33. Neck deprived of Skin. -
34. Neck deprived of Hair. -
35. Hardened Neck. -
36. Swollen Neck. -
37. Shoulders out of Joynt. -
38. Crumpled Shoulders. -
39. Distemper in the Lungs. -
40. Lung-Sickness. -
41. Cough. - Old Cough.
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42. Difficulty of fetching Breath. -
43. Heavy and Lazy. -
44. Weariness. -
45. Ague. -
46. Beating of the Heart. -
47. Stomach Lost. -
48. Horse-leech, swallowed down. -
49. Venemous Grubs swallowed. -
50. Swelling and puffing up. -
51. Pain of the Belly. -
52. Cholick. -
53. Opilation or Obstruction. -
54. Looseness of Bloody-Flux. -
55. Spoil'd Arse-gut. -
56. Paia of the Loins. -
57. Pains of the Reins Inflamation. -
58. Inflamation of the Brawns or Muscle. -
59. Pissing of Blood. -
60. Ʋnableness of Pissing. -
61. Stone of the Bladder. -
62. Stone in the Yard. -
63. Hardened Yard. -
64. Swollen Cods. -
65. Limping or Halting. -
66. Leg-out of Joynt. -
67. Broken Legs. -
68. Biting of Serpents. -
70. Stinging of Horse-flies or Hornets. -
70. Kibe on the Heel. -
71. Swollen Foot. -
72. Crumpled or stiffned Foot. -
73. Wrinched Foot. -
74. Wounded Foot. -
75. Claw of the Foot wounded. -
76. Claw of the Foot scaled or broke. -
77. Loose Claw. -
78. Foot-claw fallen off.
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- The TABLE.
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Introduction.
- Marks of a good Yew.
- Marks of a good Ram.
- When a Yew ought to be covered.
- Salt Water to drink.
- The way to have such Lambs as you please▪
- To know what coloured Lambs a Yew will bring forth.
- Of Sickness in Sheep.
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1. The Head-ach. -
2. Giddiness. -
3. Loss of Cud. -
4. Diseases in the Eyes. -
5. Ague in Lambs. -
6. Ague in Sheep. -
7. Rheum or Catarrhe. -
8. Diseases in the Teeth. -
9. Aposthumes or Ʋlcers. -
10. Boils. -
11. Boils or Scabs under the Skin of Lambs. -
12. Pursiness or short-winded. -
13. Rot or Plague. -
14.
St. Anthony's Fire. -
15. Scab or Itch. -
16. Diseases in the Lungs. -
17. Cough. -
18. Swallowing of a Venemous Creature. -
19. Swelling of the Belly. -
20. Lame in the Claws. -
21. Maggots, Lice, or Ticks. -
22. Broken or Bruised Joynts.
- The Country-mans Guid, con∣taining the Direction for the Breed, Ordering, and Curing of all Distempers in Swine.
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Introduction.
- Marks of a good Bore.
- Marks of a good Sow.
- The time of a Sow being covered.
- The best time to Geld Pigs, and to Splay the Sow.
- To make a Hog Fat.
- Sickness in Swine.
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1. Head-ach, or Sleepy-Evil. -
2. The Pox in Swine. -
3. Eating of Yarro. -
4. Diseases in the Eyes. -
5. Ague or Feaver. -
6. Measles prevented. -
7. Rheum or Catarrhe. -
8. To prevent Vomiting. -
9. Measles Cured. -
10. Plague or Disease in the Milt. -
11. Swelling of the Neck. -
12. Aposthume or Swelling in the Throat. -
13. Imposthumes in the Body. -
14. Diseases of the Gall. -
15. To kill Lice or Ticks. -
16. To prevent Thirst. -
17. A great Cough or Cold. -
18. Belly-ach. -
19. Lameness. -
21. Flux. -
22. Broken Legs or Joynts.
- An Alphabetical TABLE of the Diseases in Horses, and their Cure.
- to the reader
- ERRATA.