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 Remedy for a Swelling caus'd by a Blow.

Mix a Pound of Flower of Linseed, with a sufficient quantity of Wine till it be re∣duc'd to the thickness of Broth; boil it over a clear Fire, stirring it about without intermission: When it begins to thicken add four Ounces of common Turpentine, and when that is well incorporated with the Broth, put in six Ounces of melted Burgundy-Pitch. Then remove the Vessel from the Fire, continuing to stir the Composition till you can venture to put your Finger into it; after which you must immediately apply it to the place with Flax, and a Bandage, and repeat the Application once in twenty four Hours.

If the Swelling be accompany'd with a violent Pain, or if the Horse be very Lame, you must endeavour to allay the Pain by the Application of the Duke's Oint∣ment, or, for want of that, of the preceding Remedy prepar'd with Milk instead of Wine. For the Milk is Anodyne, and asswages Pain, but is not endu'd with the resolving Faculty of Wine; and therefore as soon as the Horse ceases to Halt, you must again prepare the Remedy with Wine, to take away the Swelling.

If these Remedies be not attended with the desir'd Success, you may have recourse to the Bath, mention'd in Chap. LXV. or to those that are describ'd in the pre∣ceding Chapter; to which last you may add some of the Herbs that enter'd the Com∣position of the former.

Sometimes these Tumours degenerate into Curbs, Spavins, or Hough-Boney's, which are sometimes cur'd by giving the Fire.

As soon as a Horse has receiv'd a Blow in his Body with another Horse's Foot, bleed him in the Neck, and bathe the place with Spirit of Wine, five or six times every Day; or (which is more effectual) anoint it with the Ointment of Montpelier, and eight Hours after chafe it with Brandy, repeating the Application once a Day.

In these cases I usually apply, with very good Success, the Crease of a Capon, Badger, or Bear, anointing the Part every Day till the Swelling be dissolv'd.