Part I. PerfeB Farrier. 1 2 5 



In making of Pills, after you have broken and 

 beaten your Drugs coarfly, mix the Compofitioa 

 with two Pounds of frefh Lard, or for want of it, 

 the like quantity of frelh Butter *, and having beatea 

 and mixt all well together in a Mortar, make pills 

 about the bignefs of fmall Tennis-Balls, and whea 

 the Horfe has fwallow'd them, give him, in a Horn, 

 fome White-Wine to carry them down to his 

 Stomach, and to take away the bitternefs from his 

 Mouth. 



If it be for a Drench, you are alfo to beat them 

 coarfly, and either mix them with a Deco&ion or 

 with Wine, and letting it infufe about a quarter of 

 an hour, give it to the Horfe early in the Morn- 

 ing, with a Horn, after he has been tied up two 

 hours to the Rack. 



If you make ufe of a fimple Infufion, which hath 

 no great efFedl: upon Horfcs, then the Drugs being 

 infufed all Night, the Liquor is to be poured off 

 next Morning, amongft which you are to diflblve 

 fome kind of Ele&uary or Powder in a fufficient 

 quantity # , and when the Horfe has taken it, rinfe 

 the Horn with the remainder of the Deco&ion, or 

 with Wine, and make him fwallow it , after which 

 wafh his Mouth with a little Wine, to take away 

 its bad relilh. 



CHAP. XXXIV. 



Of Clyfters. 



CLyfiers are of fo great ufe for the prefervatioa 

 of a Horfe's Health, and curing of Difeafes, 

 that we have no Remedy which equals them ; for a 

 Clyfter given in feafon will fave a Horfe's Life. 

 Fevers, and the cxceffive beating of the Flanks, 

 are rarely allayed but by the reiterated ufe of good 



Clyfters. 



