\^% , Tl^e Expert Farmer. Chap. 17. 



fifteen days,and then take himforth5& put him into fome other 

 paflure where the Grafs hath not been touched with the Sythe, 

 for then he will Belly well, and in fnort time recover much 

 Flelh, and become Fat and Lufly, This manner of Scowring 

 will caufe him to empty himfelf well, to purge, and fend a- 

 way all his bad Humours and Surfeits, G?SQhis Imhs n^arvei- 

 . lous well, do his le^s and/a^ very much good, refine his cor- 

 rupt /'/oo^/, and make him agile and full of fpirit. To mo we 

 green Ryd before it be eared, is alfo moft wholefome, for it 

 fcowresh, cleanfeth, and cooleth the body very much ^ fo doth 

 the leaves of Sallows, and of the Elme *, but as touching the 

 adminiftring of Scowring and Purgations in the Stable,you mull 

 underftand that fome s^ilfxAFarriers who have been far travel- 

 led in this Myfiery^ have very diligently and Itudiouily fet 

 you down many good rudiments and initrudions,wherewith 

 to work with all fecurity, whofe obfervations I doadvife 

 you punctually toobferve : as firlt thefeafonsof tfie year are 

 to be pondred : ( ^. 6". ) in winter, if his bodyht to be purg- 

 ed, it muft be firit prepared by Phkbotofj^y or blood-lettings to-^ 

 gether with artificial dyet, therefore you fhalladminiftcrci-J 

 ihGY Suppo/itory, Clyfier, Potioit, or Pi//, &c. You muft keep! 

 him a day or two from hay, ftraw, or fuch like hard-meatsj 

 of digellion, for that thofe things will be a great impedi- 

 ment to the working of phyjick, or medicine, and he muft alfo 

 be kept for a time from meat:; hccaufQ emptinefs is a great helpi 

 to Phyfcalopermon^ other wife it may happen (as it doth oftenl 

 times ) that more danger then good ii^ay accrew to the Horfe. | 

 Wherefore two or three days before you do intend to pftr^e/ 

 him, let his meat be either Wheat or Rye bran prepared, like' 

 as before is taught you, and give him alfo either good bread 

 made of pur pofe with Beans, Peafe, and lomeRye in it, or 

 elfe Oats well lifted which muft be dry and fweet, and let his 

 drink be white water only, and that morning you intend to 

 give him a purgc.^ let him be falling from either meat or drink, 

 but about fix or fevena clock in the morning, give him this 

 or fome otlier p^rgc^ which I have already taught you, or 

 ftiall hereafter, which mull be correfpondent unto the mala- 

 dy, for which you are to purge him, for one Purgation will 

 HOt fort to ever infirmity, but this purge is mofl profitable 



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