A Treatise on Farriery. A TREATISE on FARRIERY, with ANATOMICAL PLATES. (Continued from page 125.) HIS may be given twice or 177 you ready made *, in a pint of warm ale or beer; and it will prove of great fervice, as it confifts of balfamic and pectoral ingredients. If you fhould chance to be in a The day, and the quan- place where you cannot have all, tity of nitre increafed or diminifhed, as it is found to agree with the horse's ftomach, which it always will, if given in a larger quantity of the infufion, and well diluted with plenty of water. When there is a great defluxion on the langs, it will be proper to divert the humours, by keeping the body open with clyfters and laxative purges, obferving the fame precautions as have been taken notice of before. For this purpose, four ounces. of cream of tartar, and as much of the purging falts, with two ounces of lenitive electuary, may be given, which will be of great fervice, to keep the body cool, to prevent coftivenefs, and abate the fever. To this mode of treatment, all colds, if taken in the first attack, will generally fubmit: and I flatter myself that it will prove a more certain and ufeful remedy than the customary cordial drenches, which fhould be banished the stable, as they are more difpofed to augment than leffen the fever; while the above cools the whole frame, and prevents all obftructions, by promoting the fecretions in general, but more particularly by urine, and carries off the complaint before it can poffibly fettle on the lungs. But, as many will prefer the ald practice of Farriery to the modern improvements, I have continued the following, and would recommend it to thofe who would have a drink immediately, that may be made without much trouble or but few of the things before directed, then take three ounces of annifeeds, and a dram of faffron; pour a pint of boiling water over them, and let it ftand till it is of a proper heat to give the horse :it fhould be fweetened with two ounces of honey, mixed with a glafs of fallad oil. This, though a plain and fimple medicine, may poffibly have as good an effect as the more compound; for annifeeds feem to have fome fpecific virtue in curing the diforders of horfes. Markham's cordial ball has been long in high esteem, among Farriers, for a cold and cough; that which follows, is taken from Markham's own book, and is somewhat different from what I gave before, but not quite fo good. Take annifeeds, cummin feeds, fenugreek feeds, carthamus feeds, elecampane roots, flour of brimftone, and brown fugar candy, of each two ounces, beaten and fearced very fine: then take an ounce of the juice of liquorice, and diffolve it in half a pint of white wine; then take three ounces of the fyrup of coltsfoot; fallad oil and honey, of each half a pint: mix thefe with the former, and make them into a pafte, with a fufficient quantity of wheat flour. The receipt that I gave before, was from Sir William Hope's Horfemanthip; in which two ounces of the coltsfoot was ordered in fubftance, inftead of the fyrup; and an ounce of the oil of anni 178 A Treatise on Farriery. feeds was added; both which alterations make it a much better medicine than the other. There is another amendment of the balls in Quincy's Difpenfatory, under the title of Pafta Hippiatrical; the meaning of which is, the Horfe-healing Pafte. From whence he had it, I cannot tell; for it is evidently not his own, from the choice of the ingredients. He mentions one ball, that Dr. Ratcliff was the author of: I wish he had And now we are upon the sub given it us, inftead of the follow-ject of cordial balls, it will not be ing Take powder of fenugreek feeds, annifeeds, cummin feeds, 'carthamus feeds, elecampane root, coltsfoot leaves, flour of brimflone, of each three ounces; juice of liquorice, an ounce; oil of olives and honey, of each eight ounces; of Genoa treacle, twelve ounces; of oil of annifeed, an ounce; of wheat meal, a pound and an half, or as much as is fufficient to make it into a paste, which roll into balls. The reafon why I think this is not Quincy's own is, because he orders carthamus feeds, which are now, and were then, out of use. Befides, he has ordered twelve ounces of Genoa treacle, which is no where explained, in all his Difpenfatory. Now, whether Genoa treacle is a cant name for common treacle, or whether it means Theriaco Andromachi, which we call Venice treacle, and made at Genoa, I must confefs I am at a lofs to know. There may be fome wholefale dealers, in London, that may be able to tell what it means;, but I have not had the Juck to meet with any of them. However, Gibfon feems to have been acquainted with the compofition; for he fays, "When they are faithfully made, they are of general ufe in diftempers of the itomach, lungs, liver, and vifcera, improper to give you Dr. Bracken's, and then you will be better able to judge of the merit of the reft Take annifeeds and carraway feeds, finely powdered, of each an ounce; of greater cardamon feed, half an ounce; of Spanish juice, dis. folved in hyffop water, two ounces; liquorice powder, an ounce and a half; of wheat flour, enough to make them into a ftiff paste. When the whole has been beaten in a mortar, keep it for ufe, in a bladder tied. With this ball, he compounds the following medicine for colds; -Take half a pound of my cordial ball; two ounces of hog-lice fresh gathered; of precipitated fulphur, one ounce of compound powder of tragacanth, half an ounce; of balfam of Tolu, in fine powder, an ounce; of Chio turpentine, half an ounce; of fyrup of balfam, fufficient to make the whole into a proper confiftence for balls. I have made no other alteration in this prefcription, than by giv. ing the names of two of the medicines as they now go by, fince the alteration of the London Difpenfatory; and I fhall only obferve, that it will be a hard matter to get good balfam of Tolu, that will powder, and therefore it must be firft mixed with the tur pentine, 1 A Treatise on Farriery. pentine, to render it more fluid, and then beaten together with the reft. "This ball," fays he, "cannot be outdone by any medicine in the whole Materia Medica: I mean, for curing colds in horfes. Half an ounce fhould be given at a time, before the horse has his water, morning and evening; and he fhould have a flinging canter afterwards, for about a quarter of a mile, and then walking exercife. While his indifpofition lafts, his water fhould not be cold, but rather, what we call white water." 179 ber. This difordèr should be left to itself, without attempting a cure; for, whatever repels the humour, will endanger the eyes: much lefs muft the running be stopped, which will begin as foon as the foreness of the gums goes off, and will continue four or five days, or a week, before it ceases. When any dif orders of the eyes attend the cutting. of teeth, they must be treated as directed in the fection of Disorders of the Eyes. OF FEVERS IN GENERAL. A FEVER is a general disease, which affects all the nervous parts, and disturbs all the functions of the body. Nor are the folids free from its dire effects: the motion of the heart and arteries ceafe to be regular and equal; the circulation of the blood to be free and natural; and fecretions and excretions are no longer rightly performed. Horfes may be attacked with this diftemper at all ages, whether running at large in the fields, or kept clofe in the ftable; and fometimes it is epidemical, feizing great numbers at the fame time. Sometimes it is fymp The medicines made ufe of for a cold, fhould be given as long as the cold continues; for, fometimes, it will be a fortnight before it breaks, and as much longer before it goes quite off. During the cure, the horfe fhould be kept warm, and covered, especially about his neck and head, because they are generally most affected. When a horfe is fuddenly feized with a violent cold, which depreffes his fpirits, the riding and exercife fhould be forborne, till he has been bled, and proper evacuations have been used. When the cold is obftinate, and the horse full of flesh, he must be rowelled, and then ex-tomatical, as being the confequence ercife will help the working of the rowels, and promote the running at the nofe, when the disorder difcharges itself that way. of other difeafes, at the fame time rendering them more dangerous, and much more difficult to be cùred. When horfes have a cough, at The formal cause of a fever is the time of cutting their teeth, it is an univerfal affection of the fibrous generally pretty ftrong, and conti- and nervous fyftem, which begins nues till all the teeth are grown. at the fpinal marrow, and is fucThis cough is entirely fymptomati- ceffively propagated from the excal, and arifes from the confent of ternal to the internal parts of the parts; therefore, the chief thing to body. The material caufe may be be done is bleeding, to alleviate the any fubtle, acrid, cauftic matter, fymptoms. Sometimes, a fwelling either generated in the body, or in the roof of the mouth will fu- received by contagion; a stoppage pervene, called the lampafs. When of perfpiration; a restraining of this rifes higher than the teeth, the critical fweats; breaking out of the horfe will mangle his hay, and flab.fkin driven inwards; the healing of Z 2 ald |