Book. If. Tl?e Expert Famer. _ 21 5- 



CHAP. XXIII. 

 SECT. I. IV. 



Hyppophiliis. 



Hat good thing have yon wherewith to ^refer^e the 

 wind of a Horfe? 



Hiffof. Sir, for this infirmity I make a Cata- 

 plafme, which is this. ^vW to 



Take Wheat-flowr four pound, Elecampane and Gentian p'^f^rve. 

 of each one ounce, Annifeeds, F;Enugreeks,Comin, Brimitone 

 and Licorilh, of each half a pound, let all thefe be made into - 

 very fine powder and fearced, then put into it of common 

 EngliiTi Honey half a pound, and fo much white-Wine as will 

 make all thefe into a Cataplafme ^ boyl ail thefe fufficiently , , 

 till it be fo thick that you may make it intoPills,and give your 

 Horle of them three or four at a time, for fix or eight morn- 

 ings together, life this often, for it will confervc a horfe in 

 health, and keepeth him found of his body, wind, and cou- 

 rage. ^^* Tlus is moft excellent. But if you do perceive a 

 taint in his wind, then 



Take a clofe earthen Pot or Pipkin,andput thereinto of the 

 ilrongelt white-Wine-Vinegar three pints, and four new laid 

 Eggs unbroken, and four heads of Garlick clean pilled and 

 bruifed, then cover the Pot very clofe, and bury it in a Mix- 

 en or Dung-hil twelve hours, then take it up, and take forth 

 the Eggs, but break them not j then ftrain the Vinegar 

 and Garlick through a fine linnen cloth, putting unto it the 

 liquor of Life-Honey four ounces, and of brown Sugar-Can- 

 dy, Annifeedsjsand Licorilh, all made into very fine powder, 

 of each two ounces, and your /sor/e having failed all night till 

 morning, give him one of the Iteeped Eggs, and then one 

 hornful of this liquor or drink, and then another Egg, and ■ 

 after that another hornful, and fo a third Egg, and 

 then a hornful, and laltly a fourth Egg, and fo the 

 refidue of the liquor , remembring to give him into either 

 no'llril half a hornful of his drink , and it mull be admini- 

 ilred blood-warm 5 then fet him upon the trench, cloath. 



