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 / composed and experimented by the Sieur Lemery, apothecary to the French king ; made English from the original French.

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Title: 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 / composed and experimented by the Sieur Lemery, apothecary to the French king ; made English from the original French.
Author: Lémery, Nicolas, 1645-1715.
Publication: London :: Printed for Matthew Gilliflower ... and James Partridge...,; 1685.
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To fatten a Horse.

Take good White-wine two pound, juice of Sorrel one pound, common Oyl one pound, mixt together, and warm it, then make the Horse drink it, being bridled before; after which, cover him warm, walk him an hour, and put him into the Stable, continuing this fifteen days; and he will certainly grow fat.