^-§ The Compkai Hor/e-mafff CHAP. VI. 



■ bigger than that you may get forth the white and yolk, then 

 take Tarr and fweet Butter, of each like much, as much as wiH 

 fufiice, incorporate thefe well together into one body, and £o 

 convey it into the Egg (hell, and give it your Horfe three or 

 foj^r mornings together, and either journey him gently, or elfe 

 xide him three or four hours after it ^ which done, bring him 

 into the Stable and cloath him up warm ana litter him well, 

 and let him be well rubbed, and ib keep him upon the trench 

 two hours after, and then give him Hay, and an hour after 

 give him either a warm Mafh, or white water-, and this will 

 help a cold newly taken. ■^^"^. This will not mske him lick, for 

 I have often made tryal of it. Another as good as this. 



Take the long white mofs that groweth upon an old dry 

 Park pale, one handful, chop it fmall, and put it into a pottle 

 ofgood Aleor Beer, till one half be eonfumed^ then take it 

 off, and ftrain and prefs it hard, and put into the liquor of 

 Annifeeds and Licoris of each half a fpoonful, and a piece of 

 fweet Butter, and fo give it him three mornings together fall- 

 ing, and it will cure him. "^;)t*. Another if he hath taken a 

 cold or pofc in the head. 



Take a quart of Muskadine or fweet Sack, Nutmegs, Pepper, 

 Camminfeed, Grains, Bay-berries, of each three drams, aH 

 fnade into fine powder : boil thefea waume or two, then lake 

 it off, and put into it a piece of fweet Butter, and give it your 

 Horfe three ixiornings together blood warm *, let him all thole 

 three days be kept warm, neither let him d'ink any cold water, 

 l>ut either a fweet M.fh, or white water, yea and that three or 

 four days after, and during thefe three days, let him ^ait three 

 hours after the Receipt of his faid Medicine. Alfo three days 

 after, when you perceive the cold to begin to brer k from him, 

 and to rot, caufe him to iLeeze, by blowing iiito either mfril, 

 either the powder of Tobacco, or of Pepper, or of Helebore. 

 *^*. Another which v ill cure a longer taken cold, yea though 

 it be accompanied with a dry cough and Ihortnefs of breath, or 

 purfivenefs, which I had o^MrMarkham,2in(Mhzvcohcnmade 

 trial tliereof, and ii bath done cures which have been held im- 

 poflible to have been effeded. 



Take of the conferve of Elecampane three quarters of an 

 ouRce, and difiblve it in a pial and a half of fweet Sack, and 



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