"Then take a chafeing dish of coales, lay one or two (of the cakes) on the coales, make the horse's head fast, let hiui take the smoake up his nostrills through a Funnell. Though at first hee be coy to take it, yet when hee hath once flelt the smell hee will of his owne accord thrust his nose to it."
"The ffourth Medicine."
"Take the earth Lome of a mud wall which hath no lime in it, but onely earth and straw or litter, boile it in strong wine vinegar till it become very thick" (&c., &c.).
Other horse medicines are the following:
"For the Eyes."
"Fourty Millepedes bruised and given in ye juice of Celandine is excellent good for diseases in ye Eyes, of all sorts."
"For a kell or Filme."
"Mr. Birch of Stafford directed Franck, Coachman, to take a green oake-stick, thick as his legg or more, bore a hole 4 or 5 inches deep, fill it with ordinary salt, then putt y stick into an oven that is heating, and when ye stick is burnt to a cole, take it out and you will find a cylinder of salt very hard; take of ye powder of it, and blow it into ye Eye. It perfectly cur'd one of ye Coach-horses in fewe dayes, after ye use of severall medicines in vaine."
"The Emperor of All medicines concerning horses" is too long to transcribe.
"Ffor a sore Eye."
"Take the ffyne powder of Ginger and ffyne sugar and blow it into the Eye with a quil."
"All diseases in Oxen, Cows, Bulls, and Calves cured by 7 medicines."
* * * in Sheep with six medicines.
* * * in Swine with three medicines.
* * * in Dogges with three medicines.
"Madness in a Dog or anything."
"Pega, tega, sega, docemena Mega. These words written, and ye paper rowl'd up and given to a Dog or any thing that is mad, cure him. W. Whitby told me he had it from Mr.
