Markhams maister-peece, or, What doth a horse-man lacke containing all possible knowledge whatsoeuer which doth belong to any smith, farrier or horse-leech, touching the curing of all maner of diseases or sorrances in horses : drawne with great paine and most approued experience from the publique practise of all the forraine horse-marshals of Christendome and from the priuate practise of all the best farriers of this kingdome : being deuided into two bookes, the first containing all cures physicall, the second whatsoeuer belongeth to chirurgerie, with an addition of 130 most principall chapters and 340 most excellent medicines, receits and secrets worthy euery mans knowledge, neuer written of nor mentioned in any author before whatsoeuer : together with the true nature, vse, and qualitie of euerie simple spoken of through the whole worke : reade me, practise me, and admire me / written by Geruase Markham gentleman.

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Markhams maister-peece, or, What doth a horse-man lacke containing all possible knowledge whatsoeuer which doth belong to any smith, farrier or horse-leech, touching the curing of all maner of diseases or sorrances in horses : drawne with great paine and most approued experience from the publique practise of all the forraine horse-marshals of Christendome and from the priuate practise of all the best farriers of this kingdome : being deuided into two bookes, the first containing all cures physicall, the second whatsoeuer belongeth to chirurgerie, with an addition of 130 most principall chapters and 340 most excellent medicines, receits and secrets worthy euery mans knowledge, neuer written of nor mentioned in any author before whatsoeuer : together with the true nature, vse, and qualitie of euerie simple spoken of through the whole worke : reade me, practise me, and admire me / written by Geruase Markham gentleman.

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Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637.

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London :: Printed by Nicholas Okes, and are to be sold by Arthur Iohnson, dwelling at the signe of the White Horse neere to the great North doore of S. Pauls Church,

1610.

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Contents

• title page
• TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE AND HIS SINGVLAR GOOD LORD, the Lord Clyfton, Baron of Layton.
• THE FIRST BOOKE containing all cures Physicall, or such infirmities as being inward, craue the administration of Physicke, and are called in Horse-leach-craft, Horses sicknesses.
  • CHAP. 1. Of the naturall composition of horses bodies.
  • CHAP. 2. Of the foure Elements, their vertues and operations.
  • CHAP. 3. Of Temperaments and their seuerall kindes, and how farre euery way, they extend in horses.
  • CHAP. 4. Of humours, and to what end they serue.
  • CHAP. 5. Of Members and their seuerall kinds.
  • CHAP. 6. Of Powers and how a Horses body is go∣uerned by them.
  • CHAP. 7. Of Actions or Operations, and whereto they belong.
  • CHAP. 8. Of Spirits, and in what parts of the horses body they remaine.
  • Chap. 9. Of the sixe thing not naturall, how they profit, and how they hurt.
  • CHAP. 10 Of Horses complexions.
  • CHAP. 11. Of inward sicknesse, the causes and seuerall kindes thereof.
  • CHAP. 12. Of the signes of sicknesse, and of what na∣ture it consisteth.
  • CHAP. 13. Generall obseruations in the Physicking of Horses.
  • CHAP. 14. Of the vrine and excrements of an horse.
  • CHAP. 15. Of Feuers in generall, and the diuers kindes thereof.
  • CHAP. 16. Of the Quotidian or one dayes feuer, and the cure.
  • CHAP. 17. Of the Tertian Feuer.
  • CHAP. 18. Of the Quartane Feuer.
  • CHAP. 19. Of the Feuer Continuall.
  • CHAP. 20 Of the Hectique Feuer.
  • CHAP. 21. Of the Feuer taken in Autumne, or the fall of the leafe.
  • CHAP. 22. Of the Feuer taken in the Summer season.
  • CHAP. 23. Of the Feuer taken in the winter season.
  • CHAP. 24. Of the Feuer which cometh by surfaite of meate onely.
  • CHAP. 25. Of Feuers extraordinary, and first of Pestilent Feuers.
  • CHAP. 26. Of the Plague or pestilence in Horses, of some cal∣led the gargill, or murraine.
  • CHAP. 27. Of the Feuer accidentall, coming by some wound receiued.
  • CHAP. 28. Of the diseases in the head.
  • CHAP. 29. Of head-ache, or paine in the head.
  • CHAP. 30. Of the frenzie and madnesse of a horse.
  • CHAP. 31. Of the Sleeping euill, or Lethargie in horses.
  • CHAP. 32. Of a Horse that is taken, or of shrow running.
  • CHAP. 33. Of the Staggers.
  • CHAP. 34. Of the Falling euill.
  • CHAP. 35. Of the Night-mare.
  • CHAP. 36. Of the Apoplexie or Palsey.
  • CHAP. 37. Of the generall Crampe, or conuulsion of sinewes.
  • CHAP. 38. Of the cold or Poze in the head.
  • CHAP. 41. Of the mourning of the Chine.
  • CHAP. 42. Of the Cough.
  • CHAP. 43. Of the inward and wet Cough.
  • CHAP. 44. Of the dry Cough.
  • CHAP. 45. Of the frettized, broken, and rotten Lungs.
  • CHAP. 46. Of putrified and rotten Lungs.
  • CHAP. 47. Of shortnesse of breath or pursinesse.
  • CHAP. 48. Of the broken winded or Pursicke Horse.
  • CHAP. 49. Of the dry Malady or Consumption.
  • CHAP. 50. Of the Consumption of the flesh.
  • CHAP. 51. How to make a leane Horse fat.
  • CHAP. 52. Of the Breast-paine, or griefe in the breast.
  • CHAP. 53. Of the sicknesse of the heart, called the Anticor.
  • CHAP. 54. Of tired Horses.
  • CHAP. 55. Of the diseases of the stomacke, and first of the loathing of meate.
  • CHAP. 56. Of the casting out of a Horses drinke.
  • CHAP. 57. Of surfaiting with glut of prouender.
  • CHAP. 58. Of foundring in the body, being a surfaite got either by Meate, Drinke, or Labour.
  • CHAP. 59. Of the greedy Worme or hungry Euill in Horses.
  • CHAP. 60. Of the diseases of the Liuer in generall, and first of the inflammation thereof.
  • CHAP. 61. Of Obstructions, stoppings, or hard knobs on the Liuer.
  • CHAP. 62. Of the Consumption of the Liuer.
  • CHAP. 63. Of the diseases in the Gall.
  • CHAP. 64. Of all such diseases as are incident to the Spleene.
  • CHAP. 65. Of the Yellowes or Iaundise.
  • CHAP. 66. Of the Dropsie, or euill habit of the body.
  • CHAP. 67. Of the diseases in the Guts of a horse, and first of the Cholicke.
  • CHAP. 68. Of Belly-ake, or fretting in the Belly.
  • CHAP. 69. Of Costiuenesse, or Belly-bound.
  • CHAP. 70. Of the Laxe, or too much scouring of Horses.
  • CHAP. 71. Of the Bloudy flixe in Horses.
  • CHAP. 72. Of the falling downe of a horses Fundament.
  • CHAP. 73. Of the Bots, Truncheons and wormes in a horses body.
  • CHAP. 74. Of paine in the horses Kiddneyes.
  • CHAP. 75. Of the diseases belonging to the Bladder or Vrine, and first of the Strangury
  • CHAP. 76. Of the Paine-pisse or pissing with paine.
  • CHAP. 77. Of the Stone or Pissupprest in a Horse
  • CHAP. 78. Of a Horse that pisseth bloud.
  • CHAP. 79. Of the Colt euill.
  • CHAP. 80. Of the Mattering of the Yard.
  • CHAP. 81. Of the shedding of the Seede.
  • CHAP. 82. Of the falling downe of the yard.
  • CHAP. 83. Of diseases incident to Mares, and first of the barrennesse of the wombe.
  • CHAP. 84. Of the pestilent Consumption in Mares.
  • CHAP. 85. Of the rage of Loue in Mares.
  • CHAP. 86. Of Mares which cast their Foales.
  • CHAP. 87. Of Mares that are hard of foaling.
  • CHAP. 88. Of making a Mare to cast her Foale.
  • CHAP. 89. Of the drinking of Horse-leaches by Horses.
  • CHAP. 90. Of swallowing downe Hens dung, or eating any vene∣mous thing whatsoeuer.
  • CHAP. 91. Of Purging Medicines in generall, and first of the Suppositary.
  • CHAP. 92. Of Glisters and their vses.
  • CHAP. 93. Of Purgations and their vses.
  • CHAP. 94. Of Neesing or Fumigation, and the vse thereof.
  • CHAP. 95. Of Frictions or Bathes, and of their seuerall vses.
  • CHAP. 96. Generall Drenches, or Medicines for all the inward diseases or surfaits in Horses.
  • CHAP. 97. How to make the powder called Diapente.
  • CHAP. 98. A most famous Receipt, which is both a singular Drench, and a singular Oyntment.
  • CHAP. 99. How to make the oyle of Oates.
  • CHAP. 100. Certaine briefe Obseruations to be obserued at home and a∣broad whilst the horse is in health.
  • CHAP. 101. Certaine speciall Principles in Foales and in Horses.
  • CHAP. 102. Certaine generall Obseruations concerning Mares.
  • CHAP. 103. Certaine speciall Notes to be obserued in the buying of a horse.
  • CHAP. 104. Generall Notes concerning some simples al∣ready spoken of.
• title page
• THE SECOND BOOKE.
  • CHAP. 1. What proportion of measure is required in euery member of a well shapen Horse.
  • CHAP. 2. Of the Veines belonging to a Horse, and how many there be.
  • CHAP. 3. Of the Sinewes in a Horses body.
  • CHAP. 4. Of the number and situation of Bones in a Horses body.
  • CHAP. 5. How and when a Horse should be let bloud, the end whereof, and the signes of the necessity.
  • CHAP. 6. Of outward Sorrances what they are, and of certaine generall obseruations in the cure of them.
  • CHAP. 7. Of the diseases in the Eyes, and first of the weeping and watering Eye.
  • CHAP. 8. Of the Bloud shotten eye; proceeding from any cause whatsoeuer.
  • CHAP. 9. Of Dimnesse of sight, or Blindnesse.
  • CHAP. 10. Of the Pearle, Pinne, Webbe, or any spot in the Horses eye.
  • CHAP. 11. Of the Haw in the Horses eye,
  • CHAP. 12. Of Moone eyes or Lunaticke eyes.
  • CHAP. 13. Of the Canker in the eye.
  • CHAP. 14. For a Stripe or Blow vpon a Horses eye.
  • CHAP. 15. For a Wart in the Eye.
  • CHAP. 16. For any Inflammation in a Horses eies.
  • CHAP. 17. Of the Impostume in the eare of a Horse.
  • CHAP. 18. Of the Polle euill.
  • CHAP. 19. Of a Horse that is laue ear'd, and how to helpe him.
  • CHAP. 20. Of the Viues or har Kirnel, betweene the chappes and the necke.
  • CHAP. 21. Of the Strangle.
  • CHAP. 22. Of the Cankerous Vlcer in the Nose.
  • CHAP. 23. Of bleeding at the Nose.
  • CHAP. 24. Of the boody rifts, or choppes in the palate of the horses mouth.
  • CHAP. 25. Of the Gigges or Bladders in a horses mouth.
  • CHAP. 26. Of the Lampasse.
  • CHAP. 27. Of the Camery or Frounce.
  • CHAP. 28. Of the Canker in the mouth.
  • CHAP. 29. Of heate in the mouth and lippes of a Horse.
  • CHAP. 30. Of the Tongue being hurt with the Bitte, or otherwise.
  • CHAP. 31. Of the Barbes or Pappes vnderneath a Horses tongue.
  • CHAP. 32. Of paine in a Horses teeth, of Woolfes teeth and Iaw teeth.
  • CHAP. 33. Of diseases in the Necke and VVithers, and first of the Cricke in the necke.
  • CHAP. 34. Of Wennes in the necke.
  • CHAP. 35. Of swelling in the necke after bloud-letting.
  • CHAP. 36. How to stanch Bloud.
  • CHAP. 37. Of the falling of the Crest.
  • CHAP. 38. Of Manginesse in the Maine.
  • CHAP. 39. Of the shedding of the haire in the Maine.
  • CHAP. 40. Of paine and griefe in a horses Withers.
  • CHAP. 41. Of any gold backe, or Withers, how great soeuer the swel∣ling or inflammation be.
  • CHAP. 46. Of the swaying of the backe.
  • CHAP. 47. Of speciall weaknesse in the Backe.
  • CHAP. 48. Of the swelling of the Coddes or stones.
  • CHAP. 49. Of incording, or bursting, or the rupture in horses.
  • CHAP. 50. Of the Botch in the groines of a Horse.
  • CHAP. 51. Of the Itch, Scab, or Manginesse in the taile, or generall falling of the haire.
  • CHAP. 52. Of the generall Scab, Mainginesse or Leprosie, ouer the whole body.
  • CHAP. 53. How to know when a horse halteth before, in what part his griefe is.
  • CHAP. 54. Of halting behind, and where the griefe is.
  • CHAP. 55. How to know if a Horse haue any hidden griefe in him, that may make him to halte, when he commeth to trauel, and whence it proceeds.
  • CHAP. 56. Of the griefe and pinching in the shoulder.
  • CHAP. 57. Of the wrench in the shoulder.
  • CHAP. 58. Of the wrench in the wither ioint.
  • CHAP. 59. Of splayting the shoulder, or of shoulder torne.
  • CHAP. 60. Of the shoulder pighte.
  • CHAP. 61. Of the swelling of the fore legges after great labour.
  • CHAP. 62. Of a Horse that is foundred in his feete.
  • CHAP. 63. Of the Splent as well on the inside of the knee as of any other part of the legge.
  • CAP. 64. Of the Serew▪ or therrow Splent.
  • CHAP. 65. Of the Mallander.
  • CHAP. 66. Of an vpper attaint or ouer-reache vpon the backe si∣new of the flanke, somewhat aboue the pasterne ioynt.
  • CHAP. 67. Of a neather Attaint, or ouer-reach on the pasterne ioynt.
  • CHAP. 68. Of an Attaint or ouer-rech on the heele.
  • CHAP. 69. Of the Mellet on the heele.
  • CHAP. 70. Of false Quarters.
  • CHAP. 71. Of a horse that is hipped, or hurt in the hippes.
  • CHAP. 72. Of Stifling, and hurts in the Stifle.
  • CHAP. 73. Of the bone-Spauen or dry Spauen.
  • CHAP. 74. Of the bloud Spauen, wet Spauen, or through Spauen.
  • CHAP. 75. Of the Sellander.
  • CHAP. 76. Of the Hough Bonny.
  • CHAP. 77. Of the Curbe.
  • CHAP. 78. Of the Paines.
  • CHAP 79. Of the Mules, or Kybe heeles.
  • CHAP. 80. Of Winde-gales.
  • CHAP. 81. Of a Straine in the Pastorne ioynt, or Fet locke.
  • CHAP. 82. To remedy any manner of halting that commeth by straine, stroke, or any other accident.
  • CHAP. 83. Of Enterfearing.
  • CHAP. 84. Of the Shackell-gall, or gall in the Pastorne, either by shackel or locke.
  • CHAP. 85. Of hurts in the legges which commeth by casting in the halter.
  • CHAP. 86. Of the Scratches, Crepanches or Rats-tailes.
  • CHAP. 87. Of the ringbone.
  • CHAP. 88. Of hurts on the Cronet by crossing one foote on another.
  • CHAP. 89. Of the Crowne Scabbe.
  • CHAP. 90. Of the Quitter-bone.
  • CHAP. 91. Of grauelling a Horse.
  • CHAP. 96. Of Surbating.
  • CHAP. 92. Of the Pricke in the sole of the Foote, either by treading on a naile, or any other sharpe thing.
  • CHAP. 93. To draw out either Stub, Thorne, or Iron, either out of the foote, or any other part of the body.
  • CHAP. 94. Of the Figge.
  • CHAP. 95. Of a Retrait.
  • CHAP. 96. Of Cloying.
  • CHAP. 97. Generall Obseruations for the Feete and Houes of a Horse.
  • CHAP. 98. Of loosening of the Hoofe.
  • CHAP. 99. Of casting the hoofe.
  • CHAP. 100. Of the Hoofe-bound.
  • CHAP. 101. Of the running or rotten Frush.
  • CHAP. 102. Of euill Houes.
  • CHAP. 103. Of brittle Hooues.
  • CHAP. 104. How to preserue Houes.
  • CHAP. 105. For any hurt vpon the houes.
  • CHAP. 106. How to soften houes.
  • CHAP. 107. How to harden houes.
  • CHAP. 108. Of the Maltlong on the hoofe.
  • CHAP. 109. How to skinne any soare foote.
  • CHAP. 110. Of gourded or swolne legges.
  • CHAP. 111. Of the Farcy or Fashions.
  • CHAP. 112. Of the Canker in any part of the body.
  • CHAP. 113. Of the Fistula.
  • CHAP. 114. Of the Anbury.
  • CHAP. 115. Of the Cordes.
  • CHAP. 116. Of the string-halte.
  • CHAP. 117. Of a Horse that is spurgald.
  • CHAP. 118. Of Wounds in generall.
  • CHAP. 119. Of a hurte with an Arrow.
  • CHAP. 120. Of the healing of any old soare, or vlcer.
  • CHAP. 121. Of brusings or swellings.
  • CHAP. 122. Of Impostumes, and first how to ripen them.
  • Chap. 123. Of cold Impostumes.
  • CHAP. 124. Of hot Impostumes.
  • CHAP. 125. Of the Tetter.
  • CHAP. 126. Of sinewes that are cut, prickt, or bruised.
  • CHAP. 127. Of fretting the belly with the fore-girths.
  • CHAP. 128. Of Blisters.
  • CHAP. 129. To take away all manner of bones, knobs, or any superfluous flesh.
  • CHAP. 130. How to eate away any superfluous or dead flesh.
  • CHAP. 131. For Knottes in Ioynts, Hardnesse, Crampes, or any Inflammations.
  • CHAP. 132. How to cure any wound made with the shot of gun-powder.
  • CHAP. 133. Of burning with lime, or any other fiery thing.
  • CHAP. 134. Of the biting with a madde dogge.
  • CHAP. 135. Of hurtes by the tuskes of a boare.
  • CAAP. 136. To heale the biting, or stinging of Serpents, or any venomous beasts whatsoeuer.
  • CHAP. 137. Of lice or vermine, and how to kill them.
  • CHAP. 138. How to saue Horses from the stinging of Flyes in Sommer.
  • CHAP. 139. Of bones being broken or out of the Ioynt.
  • CHAP. 140. Of Bones out of Ioynt.
  • CHAP. 141. To dry vp humors, or to binde being astrictiue or binding charges.
  • CHAP. 142. A plaister to dry vp superfluous moisture, and to bind partes loosened.
  • CHAP. 143. Another plaister to dry vp any swelling, wind gall, splent, or bladders, in or about the ioints.
  • CHAP. 144. Receipts to dissolue humors.
  • CHAP. 15. How to molifie any hardnesse.
  • CHAP. 146. To harden any softnesse.
  • CHAP. 147. To conglutinate.
  • CHAP. 148. To mundifie or cleanse any soare
  • CHAP. 149. Of repercussiue medicines, or such as driue backe humors.
  • CHAP. 150. Of burning Compositions.
  • CHAP. 151. For all maner of hurts about a horse, whatsoeuer.
  • CHAP. 152. How to make the powder of hony, and lime.
  • CHAP. 153. The order of taking vp of veines, and wherefore it is good.
  • CHAP. 154. Of cauterizing or giuing the fire, the kinds and vses.
  • CHAP. 155. Of the cauterize actuall, and the forme of Instruments.
  • CHAP. 156. Of cauterize by medicine, which is cauterze potentiall.
  • CHAP. 157. Of the rowelling of horses, and the vse thereof.
  • CHAP. 158. How to geld Horses or Colts.
  • CHAP. 159. Of the making of Curtals, or cutting off of the tailes of Horses.
  • CHAP. 160. To make a white starre in any part of a horse.
  • CHAP. 161. How to make a blacke starre, or white haire blacke.
  • CHAP. 162. To make a red starre in a Horses face.
  • CHAP. 163. How to make haire to come very soone, very thicke, and very long.
  • CHAP. 194. To make haire smooth, sleeke, and soft.
  • CHAP. 165. How to take off haire in any part of a Horse.
  • CHAP. 166. How to cast or ouerthrow a horse.
  • CHAP. 167. How to know the age of a horse.
  • CHAP. 166. How to make an old horse seeme young.
  • CHAP. 169. How to make a horse that hee shall not neigh either in company, or when he is ridden.
  • CHAP. 170. How to make a horse exceedin quicke of the spurre.
  • CHAP. 171. How to make a horse that tires, or is restife, to goe forward.
  • CHAP. 172. How to make a Horse to follow his maister, and to finde him out, and challenge him amongst many people.
  • CHAP. 173. The nature and speciall qualities of all the simples that are spoken of in this whole worke, set downe in the man∣ner of Alphabet.
    • part - A
    • part - B
    • part - C
    • part - D
    • part - E
    • part - F
    • part - G
    • part - H
    • part - I
    • part - L
    • part - M
    • part - N
    • part - O
    • part - P
    • part - R
    • part - S