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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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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A. S., Gent.
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London :: Printed for Henry Nelme, at the Leg and Star, over against the royal Exchange in Cornhil,
1697.
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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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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A94232.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 15, 2024.

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For the Liver-Sickness.

This is most occasioned by bad digestion, and ill blood, which much afflicts the Liver, by carrying noctious Va∣pours along with it, from the digestion of the Stomack, and oft proves fatal, if not regarded in time.

To remedy this, take a hanful of Hysop, two ounces of Figs, an ounce of Bole-Armoniack, and a few tops of Ju∣niper, or for want of that, Juniper-Berries; boyl these in a quart of White-wine, and give it the Beast at twice, very

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hot; then when it has by its operation, stired his blood, bleed him well between the two times giving, and keep him warm two or three days.

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