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 Le••••ness, Mislike, Scurf, and Mainginess, a most appr¦ved Remedy.

These Diseases proceed from corrupt blood, occasi〈…〉〈…〉 by wet and foul lying, especially on rotten: wet Bo〈…〉〈…〉 or rotten Litter in the Stys, and sometimes from a s•••• city of Meat and Water, and now and then Wash Whey, &c.

To cure it, let the Swine blood under the Tail; the with a Wool-card rub him from the back to the Tail, all the filth and scurf come off, nay, till the skin is 〈◊〉〈◊〉 by it, and the blood come; then take Brimstone, Goo grease, and Tar, make these up into an Ointment ov•••• gentle fire, then with a fine brush diped in it, rub t•••• Swine over with it, give him short clean litter, and keep him in the Stye for two or three days with good wa•••• food, and by this means the disorder will be remedyed.

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