Modern curiosities of art & nature extracted out of the cabinets of the most eminent personages of the French court : together with the choicest secrets in mechanicks, communicated by the most approved artists of France
Lémery, Nicolas, 1645-1715.

For the Farcie in Horses.

Take Ash-tree Berries four ounces, Eglan∣tine Apples an ounce and half, Cummin-seed an ounce and half, of all these things make a Powder, or as follows.

First, you must dry the Ash-tree Berries, after taking off a little Skin that is upon them, putting it to this end upon a Brick into an Oven not too hot, do the same with the Cum∣min-seeds and Eglantine Apples, alwaies taking care none of them boil in their moisture: all being thus dry, you must pound it either to∣gether, or separately.