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 Dropsie.

This is a Disease Goats are many times troubled with, pr••ceeding from wet feeding, and too much lying abroad in ••oggy Weather, or in Monish dump Grounds, and is kn••wn by the tumourousness, or pussing up of their Skin, which if you press, with your Finger, will indent, and no: presently rise again.

To remedy this, Lance the Skin a little under the S〈…〉〈…〉¦der, and put a Rag dipped in the Oyl of Bays betwe•••• and the Flesh, and so often renew it, and by thus k〈…〉〈…〉 it tented, the Water will slow to that part and ev•••• give him, if you have a conveniency, at the same 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Hop tops the tenderest, and the tender sprays of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 or Beech, to brouse o••; however, give him a 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of Milk at twice; wherein a handful of Dwarf •• has been boyled.