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.

The swollen Neck and Chest.

In this case, Take of Honey, Hogs-lard, Bees-wax, and fresh Butter, of each an ounce; make it into an Oyntment over a gentle Fire, and anoynt the afflicted place with it; but if the Neck be swollen and raw, take Honey and Ma∣stick, of each three ounces, fresh Butter a quarter of a pound, and Hogs-Lard the like quantity; make them into an Oyntment over a gentle Fire, and bathe the place with it as hot as may be well endured.

If the Neck be much swelled and puffed up, boyl the Roots of Elecampane till they become soft; then stamp them in a Morter, mix them with Hogs-Lard or Mutton-Suet, three or four ounces of either; add to these Honey and Bees-wax, of each an ounce, Frankincense half an ounce.