The citizen and countryman's experienced farrier : to all which is added : a valuable and fine collection of the surest and best receipts in the known world for the cure of all maladies and distempers that are incident to horses of what kind soever, with directions to know what is the ailment, or disease / by J. Markham, G Jefferies, and discreet Indians.

  • Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637.
Date:
MDCCXCVII [1797]
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Credit: The citizen and countryman's experienced farrier : to all which is added : a valuable and fine collection of the surest and best receipts in the known world for the cure of all maladies and distempers that are incident to horses of what kind soever, with directions to know what is the ailment, or disease / by J. Markham, G Jefferies, and discreet Indians. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    Afterwards take half a pint of white wine, and difolve a\rge fpoonful of black foaplnit, being well incorporated (the horfe having (tood two hours) give it him to drink, and let him fail two hours after it, and the worms will void in great abundance. Another receipt for the botts, or -worms, the mojl eafy and certain without fuknefs. TAKE the foft downy hairs which grow in the ears of an horfe, which you clip away when you poll him, and the little ihort tuft which grows on the top of his forehead, underneath his fore-top, a good quantity of each ; mix them well with half a gallon of fvveet oats, and give them to the horfe. There is nothing that will kili worms more certainly. How to know the age of an horfe to a certainty. THEilE are ieven outward characters by which to know the age of any horfe : viz. His teeth, hoofs, tail, eyes, Ikin, hair, and the bars of his mouth. Fvrjl. To know his age by his teeth, you mull obferve that a horfe has juft forty teeth : — that is fix great wang teeth above, and fix be- low on one fide, the fame on the other, which makes twenty-four, and are called his grinders. Then fix above and fix below in the fore-part of his mouth, called gatherers, which makes the number thirty-fix. Four tufhes, one above and one below on each fide, makes juft for'ty teeth. 1 he firft year he hath his foal's teeth, which are only grinders and gatherers. They are fmall white, and bright to look at.