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The Little Book of Knowledge.
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For a fever, let him blood in the thigh, in the middle vein, some four fingers breadth under his (illegible text)wl, or else take the vein in the neck, and afterwards give him a drink.

For the glanders, take twenty cloves of garlick, (illegible text) quarts of ale, and one pennyworth of sallad-(illegible text), 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 outside of a pottage pot, that you seethe meat in, (illegible text)y it to the breeding place, plaister ways, and it (illegible text) stench the blood forthwith.

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

To help a tired horse, pour a quart of good wine or ale down his throat, and it will very much refresh 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 his own blood, is a cure to himself.

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