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.

For a Flux of Urine.

Having already discours'd of the Stoppage of Urine, I shall proceed, in the next place, to give an account of the Cause and Cure of a contrary Distemper, in which the Horse voids an excessive quantity of crude, and undigested Urine resembling Water, and at last dies, not being able to support the long continuance of such an immoderate Evacuation. This Flux of Urine is occasion'd by the Heat and Sharpness of the Blood, and an Inflammation of the Kidneys, which, like Cupping-Glasses, suck all the serous Humours out of the Veins, and discharge 'em into the Bladder, every thing that the Horse drinks passing immediately thro' his Body, without the least Alteration.

The remote Causes of this Distemper are, Immoderate and Irregular Exercise, or Working of young Horses, cold Rains in the beginning of Winter, and eating of Oats that are Imported by Sea, where, being of a spongy Nature, they imbibe and suck in the volatile saline Spirits that rise out of the Sea.

When you undertake the Cure of this Disease, in the first place you must order the Horse's Diet, feeding him with Bran instead of Oats, and give him a cooling Clyster; next day let him Blood, and the day after inject another Clyster, after which Bleed him again the following day. The whole quantity of Blood that is taken away must not exceed four Pounds, that is, two at each time.

After you have let Blood twice, and injected two Clysters, boil two Quarts of Wa∣ter, and put it into a Pail-full of common Water, with a large handful of Oriental Bole beaten to Powder. Mix the whole very well, and make the Horse drink it luke∣warm, if it be possible, neither must you give him any other Liquor for his ordinary drink Morning or Evening.

Horses that are troubl'd with this Distemper drink excessively; and some of 'em are so thirsty, and their Bodies so heated, that they would drink six Pail-fulls of Wa∣ter every day. You must not restrain 'em, but let 'em have their full liberty to drink

as much as they please, provided the Water be prepar'd as before with boiling Water and Bole; for the more they drink, the sooner will they be cur'd.

When the Horse begins to Stale as he us'd to do when in Health, and his Belly and Dung return to their natural Condition, you must restore his Oats by degrees, exercise him moderately at first, and afterwards Ride or Work him with discretion.