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OLD REMEDIES FOR FARCY AND GLANDERS. 
Medical Treatment of Farcie. 
First bloode your horse on both sides of the neck, and let 
him bloode very well, according to the strengthe of the horse. 
Then take a pinte and a halfe of hempseede, and bruise it. Then 
take three penny quills of quicksilver, and kill it with fasting 
spittle or vinegar, and put these into a quarte of ale and boyle it 
till it come to a pinte, and lett it stand until it be lukewarme, and 
give the horse fasting, and two or three times will kill it; (Q y . 
horse or disease ?) but be sure there be three or four dayes be- 
tweene every drinke, and give him a mashe three or four houres 
after every drinke. 
Medical Treatment of Glanders. 
Take two quartes of stale, and put it into a pipkin close co¬ 
vered, and set it a yard deepe in a horse-dunghill three days and 
three nights. Then take four heads of garlick, and stampe them, 
and put them into the stale. When you take it out, boyle it 
until it comes to three pintes: boyle with it one pennyworth of 
horse-spice. Lett the horse fast all night, and in the morning 
give him a pinte of it, and soe as often as you shall see cause; 
butt commonly three or four mornings is ennoughe, but be sure 
there be three or four mornings betweene every drinke. 
VV hen you intend to give your horse a pinte of his drinke, the 
night before take a little pipkin, and put therein an egge, and 
cover it with the best white wine vinegar ; then cover the pipkin 
close, and set it a yard deepe in a horse-dunghill, and in the 
morning take it out; and when you have given the horse his 
drinke, throwe this egge downe his throate whole; and this doe 
after every drink you give him. Then ride him halfe a mile 
upon a good round gallop; then set him upp and cloathe him 
warme with good store of litter, and four liowers after a mashe. 
The same research brought us in contact with old Barnabv 
Googe, who says, “ Hieronimus Tragus teacheth, for a horse if 
he bee sicke and suddenlie fall downe of a disease that you knowe 
not, putt under his tonge a peece of feme roote, whereupon you 
shall see him immediately voyde upwarde and downwarde what 
ever is in his bodye, and presently amende.” “ This,” says 
Barnaby, u I knowe to be true, for I have proved it upon a horse 
of my owne.” 
Old Barnaby was a veterinarian of the right stamp : he studied 
the natural history and diseases of all domesticated animals. Of 
the hog he gives this valuable morsel of natural history : “ Every 
pigge doth knowe his owne pappe that he was borne to, and 
