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.

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Title: 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.
Author: A. S., Gent.
Publication: London :: Printed for Henry Nelme, at the Leg and Star, over against the royal Exchange in Cornhil,; 1697.
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Subject terms: Animal breeding -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800.; Domestic animals -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800.; Animal industry -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800.; Veterinary medicine -- Early works to 1800.
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For Murrain of divers kinds, a Remedy.

Take Sulpher and unslac'd Lime, the Seeds of Coriander dryed, Marjorum and Garlick, beat these into a Powder, and having sprinkled it on the Coals, burning in a Cha∣fing Dish or Pan, order it so that the Beast may be sumed with it, going up his Nostrils, and in all parts, which will bring away at his Vents, and by sweat, abundance of the Infectious humour; then give a quarter of an Ounce of Ru••arb, and an Ounce of Gardus boyled in a pint of White-wine, this must be done three or four times, as soon as the Symptoms of the Disease appear, though it is tryed with great success after it has seized him.