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Rh For a fever, let him blood in the thigh, in the middle vein, some four fingers breadth under his wl, or else take the vein in the neck, and afterwards give him a drink.

For the glanders, take twenty cloves of garlick, quarts of ale, and one pennyworth of sallad-, peel and beat the garlick, and mix them altogether, and give it him to drink; then take a pan of coals, and strew on them the powder of brimstone, laying on it a little wet hay and hold it under the horse's nose in a tunnel, that the smoke may ascend to his nostrils, and perfume him well with the same, and then ride him forth till he begins to sweat, and set him up warm, and an hour after give him meat.

To stench blood, take the scrappings of the of a pottage pot, that you seethe meat in, y it to the breeding place, plaister ways, and it  stench the blood forthwith.

To skin sores, take molten butter, and strew upon the powder of rosin a day or two, then take two of very thick, and wich the foot  a chimney, make a paste thereof, , and spread it n the fore.

To help a tired horse, pour a quart of good wine ale down his throat, and it will very much  him. If your horse in travel fall suddenly sick, where no town is nigh, alight, and with a knife bodkin, pick him in the roof of the mouth, and make him to bleed, suffering him to chew and eat own blood, is a cure to himself.

Kine—How to know and help a cow that is like cast her calf She will look hollow eyed and ne: Take  grounds of ale, and the powder of, , and ginger, and give it her  drink.