y% Tl^e Expert Farrier. Chap. lo. 



ceipts for this infirmity, I will give you two Receipts, the 

 one for the G landers ^thz other for the mourning of the Chine, 

 which are Mafter Markjoams, which he ftiieth thus. Two 

 moll certain and newly found out Medicines, which will 

 without fail cure any Glanders^ though our Farriers hold it 

 impofllble. The cure. If your Horfe his cold be come to the 

 worll Glanders, which is a continual running at the Nofe, 

 and hath fo run by the fpace of divers months, fo that the 

 Farriers can do no good , then fhall you take better then 

 two handfuls of the white cankerous Mofs which groweth 

 upon an old Oaken pale, and boyl it in Milk two quarts, till 

 one part be almoft confumed, then ftrain it and fqueeze the 

 Mofs well, which done give it your Borfe luke-warm to 

 drink, then take two Geele Feathers, and take fweet Butter, 

 as a bigg Walnut, and with the Powder of Brimftone, fine- 

 ly beaten and fearfed, work them together with your Knife 

 or Splatter, till the Butter be brought to a high Gold colour, 

 then take two clean Feathers the longcit in all the Goofe- 

 wing, and firit at the quill ends with a Needle fallen two 

 long Threads, then with your Salve anoint the Feathers all 

 over, which done in the dry Powder of Brimflone, rowl 

 them over and over, then putting the Feathers ends formolt, 

 open the Horfes Nollrils, and thrull them up into his Head, 

 then take the threads, which are at the quills ends, and fa- 

 llen them on the top of the Horfes head, which done ride 

 him abroad for an hour or two. Airing him in this manner 

 morning and evening, and when you bring him into the Sta- 

 ble, after he hath flood tyed up ajretty feafon, untye the 

 threads, and draw out the Feathers, and v^^iping them very 

 dry, lay them up till you have the next occafion to ufe them, 

 and keep his body warm. This difeafe you mufl underfland, 

 Cometh not fuddenly, but grows out of long procefs of time j 

 fo likewife the cure mull not be expe(fted to be done in a 

 moment, but with much leifure : Therefore you mult con- 

 tinue your Medicine, as your leifure will ferve, either every 

 day, or at the leall thrice a week, if it be for four or five 

 months together, and be furc it will in the end yield your^ 

 defire. 



Now the fccond and well aifured, and certain Medicine 



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