The parfait mareschal, or Compleat farrier. Which teacheth, I. To know the shapes and goodness, as well as faults and imperfections of horses. II. The signs and causes of their diseases, the means to prevent them, their cure, and the good or bad use of purging and bleeding. III. The way to order and preserve them, when upon travel, to feed, and to dress them. IV. The art of shoeing, according to a new design of shoes, which will recover bad feet, and preserve the good. Together with a treatise, how to raise and bring up a true and beautiful race of horses: as also instructions, whereby to fit all kinds of horses with proper bits, whereof the chief draughts are represented in copper-plates. / Written originally in French by the Sieur de Solleysel Escuyer, sometime one of the overseers of the French Kings Royal Academy of Riding, near to the Hostel de Conde in Paris. And translated from the last Paris impression, by Sir William Hope of Kirkliston Kt. Lieutenat Governour of the Castle of Edinburgh. By whom is also added as a supplement to the first part, a most compendious and excellent collection of horsemanship, taken from the best and most modern writers upon that subject, such as Mr. De la Brow, Pluvinel, and the Great Duke of Newcastle. Part I.

A Febrifuge, or Remedy to drive away Fevers.

Put a Quart of Water with two Ounces of Salt of Tartar in a Brazen Pot with a Cover, and set it over the Fire till the Salt be dissolv'd; then pour the Water into a Pail, and after the same manner dissolve an Ounce of Sal Armoniac beaten to Powder, in another Quart of Water. Mix this last Solution with the former, and fill up the Pail with common Water; if your Horse refuse to drink it, add a little Barley Flower to qualifie the unpleasant Taste. This Drink will allay the Heat of the Fever, quiet and stop the Fermentation and Ebullition of the Humours, provoke Urine powerfully, and wonderfully ease the sick Horse. And therefore you must always pour a little of this Febrifuge into the Water you give him to drink, neglecting the Use of Sal Prunellae, since 'tis not expedient to confound Reme∣dies; and the Febrifuge excels all the rest that can be prescrib'd.

Take Assa-faetida and Savin, both in Powder, of each half an Ounce; tye 'em in a Bag to your Horse's Bit, and never unbridle him, unless when you think fit to suffer him to eat or drink.

There are no other internal Remedies useful in this Case, but the Cordial Wa∣ters, which by Virtue of their Essential Qualities, strengthen the Heart, and in∣able it to resist the Malignity of the unnatural Heat, that opposes and endeavours to destroy that which is Natural; and besides, by reason of their Moisture, they al∣lay and temper that internal Heat which causes the Fever. Take three Pints of

the Waters of Scabious, Carduus Benedictus, Scorzonera, and Queen of the Meadows, with an Ounce of the Confection of Alkermes: Make your Horse drink up the whole Mix∣ture, and repeat it the next Day, if need require.

Above all, you must continue, and frequently repeat the use of Clysters, injecting three or four every Day, if there be occasion: For there is no Remedy gives greater ease, and relieves the Horse more effectually.