MISCELLANEA. 
599 
Lamb Wine. 
The Chinese have a kind of very strong; spirit or distilled water, 
said to be drawn from lamb, which the Emperor Kanghi drinks 
sometimes : but few make use of it except the Tartars, as it has 
a disagreable taste, and soon intoxicates. Among the Tartars it 
passes for an excellent liquor.— Du Halde’s China, p. 43. 
Destruction of Sheep in China. 
Sometimes nearly or quite one half of the sheep in the Em¬ 
pire of China are carried off in one year. The mortality com¬ 
mences in the beginning of spring, when the herbage rots on the 
ground, and the sheep have nothing but the roots, which they 
scrape up with their feet. The pestilence ceases when the new 
grass begins to grow.— Astley's Compendium of Voyages, vol. iv, 
738. 
To PRESERVE Beasts from Disease all the Year 
ROUND. 
Put out of thy stable all thy beasts, or what other cattle thou 
hast, the three nights following hereafter, and make the stalls 
and stables very clean, and the mangers also, and give a beast no 
meat those nights in those places; and these be the three nights, 
—Christmas eve, Newyears eve, and Twelfth eve.— Godfredus*s 
Husbandman’s Practice, 1688. 
Old Farriery. 
Pardon, or Farcie, is a scabbe or knobbes breaking in divers 
places of his body, and commeth chiefely in the veines. 
Hume is taken by cold ; so his teeth will wax loose and seeme 
long; and then he cannot eate his meat, but it will lie in lumps 
about his jaws. 
Ring-bone is a hard gristle about the hoofe. 
Sp/ent is a splend (Qy. what?) sinew above the fetter-locks. 
Staggers is a dizziness of the head, breeding of cold and of the 
yellowes. 
Cords is a slacke sinew in the legges before. 
