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pies over with a plaster of pitch, and keep his head exceedingly 
warm: let his meat be little, and his stable dark. 
Coldj or Cough. 
A COLD is got by unnaturall heats and too suddain coolings ; 
and these colds engender coughs, and these coughs putrefaction 
or rottennesse of the lungs. The cure, therefore, for them all, in 
general, is, to take a handfull or two of the white and greenish 
mosse which growes upon an old oke-pole, or any old oke wood, 
and boil it in a quart of milk until it be thick, and, being cold, 
turned to jelly; then straine it, and give it to the horse lukewarme 
every morning till his cough end : or else take J oz. of the con¬ 
serve of elicampane, and dissolve it in a pint of sack, and, luke¬ 
warm, give it to the horse fasting. Then ride him after it, and 
set him up warm. 
Glanders. 
Take of auripigmentum two drams, of tussaliginis made 
into powder as much ; then mixing them together with turpen¬ 
tine Till they be like paste, and making thereof little cakes, dry 
them before the fire. Then take a chafing dish and coales, and 
laying one or two of the cakes thereon, cover them with a tunnel, 
and then, the smoke rising, put the tunnel into the horse’s nos¬ 
trils, and let the smoak go up into his head, which done, ride 
the horse till he sweat. Do thus once every morning before he 
be watered, till the running at his nostrils cease, and the kirnels 
under his chops wear away. 
Of tyred Horses. 
If your horse be tyred, either in journeying or any hunting 
match, your best help for him is, to give him warm urine to drink, 
and, letting him blood in the mouth, to suffer him to lick up and 
swallow the same. Then, if you can come where any nettles are, 
to rub his mouth and sheath well therewith, then gently to ride 
him till you come to your resting-place, where set him up very 
warm. Before you go to bed, give him six spoonfuls of aqua 
vitae to drink, and as much provender as he will eat. The'next 
morning rub his legs with sheep’s-foot oyl, and it will bring 
fresh nimbleness into his sinews. 
The Yellows. 
From the overflowing of the gal, or rather want of the gal, 
spring many mortal diseases, especially the yellows, which is an 
extream faint mortal sicknesse, if it be not] prevented in time. 
