BOOK IF. and Expert Ferrkr, t6j 



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If your Horfe hath a new taken cold, then give him his Cau- 

 dle, which I have often ufed, and do find it to be very good. 



Take the Yolks of four new laid Eggs, and beat them well 

 )together, and dlHolve them with a quart of good Ale, then 

 "take three good Nutmegs with a little Annifeeds and Licori^, 

 made all into fine povv^dcr, and as much Pepper in fine powder 

 as you can take up upon a iix-pence •, put'thefe into the Ale, 

 with a peicc of fweet Butter, fomuch as will fuffice, and two 

 fpoonfuls of ordiuciry Treacle, and of brown Sugar-candy 

 four ounces ^ warm all thefe upon the fire till the Treacle and 

 'Butter be molten, then give it him blood-warm, +or 5 morn- 

 ings together j and this is an infallible cure. "^.^^"^ Another ve^ 

 ty good. 



Take~a pottle of fweet Wort, three heads of Garlick pil- 

 led, or ordinary Honey half a pound, boil-theie till onemoity 

 beconfumed, and give it your //<?r/c three mornings together: 

 Then for three mornings together after give him thefe PiUs. 

 Take Box leaves and Harts-tongue, of each fo much as will 

 fuffice, (lamp them well together, and with fweet Butter make 

 it into Pills -^ and fo every morning give him three of thefe 

 Pills. "^^^ But if he hath a cold which brcaketh and runneth 

 pfrom him, then muft: you be careful to keep his Head and Po'.e 

 -.warm, by putting on a double Hood, and every Morning faft- 

 ing ride him with two long Goofe feathers put up into either 

 Nojlrd^ well dipped before hand in Oil de-Bay, and with a 

 ftrong Packthred from the ends of the quills fallned over his 

 Head like a Head-ftall of a Bridle, fo as the feathers may not 

 ■get forth, and fallen alfo to his Bit or Snaffle one Root or two 

 of Polypodinm j having been all night before lain fteeped in the 

 Oil of Spike, and every time you ride him anoint the Bit thus 

 before hand prepared with the faid Oil, and when he cometh 

 home, put upon his Pole his double hood, and rub him againft 

 the hair all over, efpecially his iV^c^ and P&lci (for fridion in 

 this cafe is moil fovereign) then whilllhe is yet warm,perfume 

 his Nofe with Frankinceni^, Storax, and Benjamin, of each like 

 much J do this nine days together, and let his drink be white 

 water •• For all Rhumes having had time to work their ma- 

 lice will become daiigerous> yea and many times ciirelels. ■^^*. 

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