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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The Gargyse, an approved way to cure.

The Gargyse is a swelling upon the Eye, beside the Bone, like a Botch, or Boil, and if the Beast have it cut off, a circle of Skin round it, and a little one round that; or you may do it by seering the Skin till you see it yellow, and this will keep it from coming to the Lips, which if it attain to, most hold it incurable; then seeth Bay-salt in Cha••••berly, and wash the sore place Morning and Evening, scraping off the Filth, and so ordering it till the swelling sink, and it leave Wa••••••ing and Mattering; then take two

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Ounces of Honey, and a quarter of a pint of Nerve-Oyl mix them over a Fire, and anoint the place with it, and it will grow well.

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