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.

CHAP. CXLIII. The Remedy of a German Farrier for the Farcin.

'TIS a very considerable conveniency to be furnish'd with variety of Remedies for dangerous Distempers; for some Medicines are not duly Prepar'd, and others that cannot be accus'd of that defect, are nevertheless found to be ineffectual; and besides, every one may gratifie his Inclination in the choice of a Remedy among so great a number.

Whatever Method you follow in the Cure of the Farcin, you must always observe the above-mention'd Directions concerning your Horse's Diet: You must also Bleed him, and Purge him too, if you think fit; but whether you purge or not, you must begin with Bleeding. Then,

Take Sarsaparilla and China-Roots cut small, of each three Ounces; Roots of Avens, two Ounces; Leaves of Agrimony two large handfuls, Scordium a handful and a half; boil 'em gently in four Quarts of Water, to a Quart and a half in a cover'd Vessel; then strain, and adding a Pint of White-Wine, make a Decoction for five Doses, to be given five Mornings together, adding to every Dose an ordinary Glass-full of Urine 〈2 pages missing〉〈2 pages missing〉

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Substance in the Top, and in the Neck of the Vial. Thus you have a sweet Sublimate, which if it be rightly prepar'd, will not discover the least Acrimony when you touch it with your Tongue; for all the sharp and biting Salts that made the first Sublimate corrosive, are evaporated thro' the Neck of the Vial, which must be always kept open du∣ring the Sublimation; and even part of the first Corrosive Sublimate is carry'd off with the Salts: so that there remains only the sweet Sublimate or Mercury, which may be kept for several Uses. 'Tis to be observ'd, that all the Preparations of Mercury may be re∣viv'd, and restor'd to their natural Form and Fluidity, with Filings of Steel, or unslak'd Lime, which by the Assistance of the Fire attract and retain all the Spirits that kept the Mercury in a manner imprison'd in so many various Forms, according to the Di∣versity of the Preparations for several Uses: Thus Cinnabar, which is only Mercury sublim'd with Sulphur, may be reduc'd to fluid Quick-silver with Filings of Steel; and the same may be said of all the other Preparations of Mercury, such as the Precipitates, Turbith Mineral, &c.