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 great, or general Scab, or I••c••.

This is a grievous offensive Disorder, or Sorrance, not uncommon amongst Sheep, especially those that are much exposed in the Fields, or other places, to rainey weather, or great Mists, or Fogs; over-driven much in wet dirty ways, or the like: These things, I say, will afflict them with this n••useous Sorrance, making them break forth in∣to Sca••s, which, upon view, you may know if it ••e ge∣neral, or only in particular places, by a filthy white Scurff sticking on their ••kins; when you perceive this, take off the Wool as close as can ••e, mix Tar, Goose∣grease, and the Juyce of Rue, make them into an Oynt∣ment over a gentle Fire, and anoint them with it warm, then clap some light fleeces of Wooll, or a few shreads of stocks over it, and the Scab will dry up, and peel off; you may, if it be very great, let Blood in the Tail and Ears, and give them the Juyce of Cardus in a Glass of White∣wine to drink, and then a while after smoak them with Brimstone, which will put them into a kind of a Flu••, that will carry off the Humour; and then, the cause remo∣ved, the Effects will cease.