MEDICAL RECIPES OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTUliV. 75

• ' Then take a cliafeiug dish of coales, lay one or two (of the

cakes) on tlie 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 Avhen lice hath once flclt the smell hee will of his ownc accord thrust his nose to it." " Thcffourth 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 IMillepedcs bruised and given in y^ juice of Celan- dine is excellent good for diseases in y^" Eyes, of all sorts." " For a hell or Filme!' " i^Ir. 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 y'-' stick is burnt to a cole, take it out and you will find a cylinder of salt very hard ; take of y^' powder of it, and blow it into y^" Eye. It perfectly cur'd one of y*^ Coach-horses in fewe dayes, after y^' use of severall medicines in vaine." " The Emperor of All medicines concerning horses " is too long to transcribe. " Ffor a sore Eye" " Take the fi'yne powder of Ginger and fiyne 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 Doffcs with three medicines.

'oo^ "Madness in a Dog or anylhimf!' "Pcga, tega, scga, docemena ^Icga. These words written, and y })aper rowl'd up and given to a Dog or any thing that is mad, cure him. W. Wiiilby told me he had it from ^Ir.