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Admonition to the R E ADER. 



IN this Impreflion , all tliofe Medicines , which of my own 

 Knowledge I have found to be certain and moft approved, 

 Ihave in the Margin, and over-againft the Medicine, placed this 

 Mar'k^O'- And a Ifo to every new Adition and new Chapter (never 

 before publiihed •, 1 have, in, the beginning of this Chapter) placed this 

 Mark. Ar.d for thy fuller Information, I have alfo in the Table to all the 

 new Editions, which are the very Exellencies of all my Knowledge, pla- 

 ced this Mark alfo ,^^. As for the many Books that have been foifted 

 into the World in my ISlame, I own none but this and one other. 

 I can givethg Reader no better Reafon to perl\vade him to read 

 my Book, than to fhew him the real Ufe of Horfes, well managed accor- 

 ding to the true Rules of Horleman-ihip, that this excellent Beaft may 

 not perifli or mifcarry for want of knowing his natural Difeafes, and Cure 

 thereof I have now made the Soldier, and all others Matters of Art in 

 the Cure of their Horfes, if Farriers be wanting to Confult with. It is 

 alfo a Knowledge fit for a Gentleman, both in Pea<;e and War, to be able 

 to cure the Difeafes infident to Horfes. I have been 50 Years a Pra- 

 ftitioner ^ and did never think to have, difclofed thefe Secrets that 1 now 

 have done : But Old-Age growing upon me, and confidering that the 

 Grave will be never a whit the better ^ 1 thought it more proper to di- 

 vulge them to the World than that they fhould be buried in Oblivion : 

 So defiring the Reader to give God the Glory, and me but only Thanks 

 and good Wifhes. I reft thine, G. M a r k h a m. 



To Farriers J Hushandmen, and all that delight in Horfes And other Cattle. 



Sirs Let me affure you that there is newnefs of Birth, and approved 

 Experience,which to this Day has not been dilcovered by any other,andiit 

 is the Prafticeand Experi-nce of above 50 Years : The many ImpreiTions 

 ihews the good and kind Reception it^has found,and I fay of it, that it will 

 not be counted Oftentation,to affirm it the only Book that is Extant of this 

 Kind: In the 19th Edition are fome Additions, and an Alphabetical 

 Table, which I was defired to add to this ImpreiTion, yours, G. Markhant- 

 j^uthors. The hefl of Furriers made vf^ ef in this Work. 



Xenophon, Rufticus, Vigelius, Peiagonis, Camerarius, Apolonius, Gef- 

 fou, Gulli, Horatio, Gloria, de Coballi, Liball, Stevens,Wicher, laBorone, 

 Martin, Sen. Albetero, Vinet, Clifford, Maftal Martin, Jun. Webb, Dali- 

 doun,, Ausborn, Stanly^ Smith, Dowfmg, Day*, Barns, Mayfield, Lupman^ 

 Goodfon, Parfucy, Whate, and others. . 



