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like quantity, feethe them in a Quart of old Wine, or a Quart of Run- 

 ning-Water till fome part be confumed, and give it the Horfe to drink : 

 If inftead of the Herbs themfelves, you give the Juice of the Herbs ia 

 Wine, it is good. ,There be others which take a good quantity of white 

 Currans, and as much Honey, two Ounces of Marjoram, one Ounce of 

 Penny-royal, with fire Pounds of freih Greafe, and nine Heads of Gar- 

 lick, beat that which is to be beaten, and melt the reft ^ give this in four 

 or five Days like Pills dipt iia Honey. Others ufe to take Myrrh Opo- 

 ponax. Iris, Ilerica, and Galbanum, of each two Ounces, of Red Sto- 

 rax three Ounces, of Turpentine four Ounces, of Hen-bane half an 

 Ounce, of Opium half an Ounce, beat them to fine Powder, and give 

 two or three Spoonfuls with a Pint of old Wine, or a Quart of Ale. 



Others ufe to take forty grains of Pepper, four or five Roots of Rad- 

 diih, four Heads of Garlick, ond five ounces fweet-Butter ^ ftamp them 

 all well together, and give every Day a Ball of It to the Horfe for a 

 Week together, inaking him faft two hours after his taking of it j and 

 furely, it is a moft excellent approved Medicince for any old over-grown 

 Cold, or Cough. Oiher Farriers ufe to take of Oil de Bay and fweet But- 

 ter, of each half a pound, Garlick one pound, beat it together unpilled, 

 and being well beated with a Peftle of Wood, add your Oil and Butter 

 unto it : Then having made it into Balls, with a little Wheat-flower, 

 give your Plorfe every Morning for a Week and more, three or four Balls 

 as big as Walnuts, keeping him fafting after from Meat three hours, and 

 from Drink till it be Night,provided that ftill his Drink be warm,and his 

 Meat, if poiTible, may be Grafs or Hay fprinckled with Water : As for 

 his Provender, it fhould be Oats and Fenugreek fprinkled among it. Now 

 if you perceive that at a Fortnights End, his Cough doth nothing at all 

 abate, you fliall then for another Week, give him again the fame Phyfick 

 and Diet •, but truly for my own part, I have never found it to fail in any 

 Horfe whatfoever ^ yet I will wiih all Farriers not to be too bufie with 

 thefe inward Medicines, except they be well aHured that the Cold hath 

 been long, and that the Cough is dangerous. 



Chap. L. Two e.y:cellcnt true and well approved Medicines^ for any Cold, drf 



Cough, jhortnefs of Breath, Vurfmefs, or Broken-winded.^ 

 nn H E firft is, Take of Tar three fpoonfuls, of l\veet-Butter as much, *^ 

 •^ beat and work them well together with the fine powder of Licoras, 

 Annifeeds, and Sugar-candy, till it be brought to a hard Pafte j then 

 make it in three round Balls, and put into each Ball four or five Cloves 

 of Garlick, and fo give them them to the Horfe, and warm him with 

 Riding, both before and after he hath received the Pills, and be alTured,, 

 that he be fafting when he takes it ^ and faft at leaft two hours after he 

 hath taken it, 



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