The husbandman, farmer and grasier's compleat instructor. Containing choice and approved rules, and directions for breeding, feeding, chusing, buying, selling, well ordering and fatning bulls, cows, calves, rams, ews, lambs, swine, goats, asses, mules, &c. : How to know the several diseases incident to them, by their signs and symptoms, with proper remedies to cure them; : as likewise all griefs, and sorrances what-ever. : Also, a treatise of dogs, and conies, in their breeding, ordering, and curing the distempers they are subject to. : To which is added, The experienced vermine-killer, in particular directions, for taking and destroying all sorts of vermine in houses, out-houses, fields, garden, graneries, and other places. / By A.S. Gent.

For the swelling of the Knees and other Joynts.

If you find the Joynts swelled, bathe them with warm Vine ••ar, chasing it in strongly with your Hands, then bruis•• Linseed and Melliiot, a Herb so called, and lay it on Poul••is-wise, fryed in Hogs-lard; let this be done very hot.

If under the Swelling there be any Humour contracted, lay o•• Leaven and Barly Meal sod in Water and Honey, and when it is Ripe, it must be Lanced, and anoynt it with Oyntment of Tobacco, covering the Wound with a Plaister of Diaculum, and renew this in two or three days, and the Beast will be easie, and sit to Travel, or go to Plough, &c.