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 Draught for a Cold join'd with a Palpitation or Beating in the Flank.

When the sick Horse is troubl'd with a Cough, a vehement Beating in his Flank, and even Palpitation of the Heart, you cannot assist him more effectually than by giving him two Clysters, and then the following Draught, after he has stood two hours in the Morning, with a watering Bit in his Mouth. 'Tis compos••d of the Waters of Scor∣zonera, Carduus Benedictus, Scabious, Roses, and bitter Succory, of each half a Pint: Give the Horse a Quart of these Waters, with an Ounce of Zedoary, and two Drams of Saffron, both in fine Powder; then rinse the Horn with the half Pint that remains, and make him drink that also: After which let him stand four hours with a Water∣bit in his Mouth, and as soon as you unbridle him lay moisten'd Bran before him, leav∣ing him to eat at his pleasure till Night, and then give him a good Clyster with an Ounce and an half of Sal Polychrest.

Take Assa-foetida and Powder of Savin, of each half an Ounce, and tie 'em in a Bag to the Bit; let the Horse stand two hours, then unbridle him, and after two hours more put in the Bag again. For, besides that this Bag gives him an Appetite, it eases his Head, by making him void a great quantity of Water and bitter Flegm.

Instead of the Zedoary and Saffron, you may mix an Ounce of the Confection of Hy∣acinth without Musk or Amber-grise, with the Cordial Waters; and the same may be re∣peated two or three times if need require, and if you found any Benefit by the first Dose: for that which gives Ease, may (if continu'd) perfect the Cure.

The main part of the Cure consists in giving the Horse one or two softening Clysters, with Sal Polychrest every day.