MARKHAM, Gervase
£1,950 · Offered by Sokol Books
The Schwerdt-Foyle copy of the third edition. This work on the rearing of animals lays particular emphasis on the treating of illnesses and is a valuable record of veterinary medicine. Book one is dedicated to the foure-footed beasts ; the horse (for diseases of the liver, the signes to know it is a stinking breath and a mutuall looking towards his body , treat with aristolochia longa), cow (for the killing of lice annoit their body with fresh grease, pepper, stavesaker and quicksilver), sheep ( if your lambe be sick, you shall give it mares-milke, or goats-milke, or their own dammes milke mixt with water to drinke, and keepe it very warme ), goats ( goates are very much subiect unto the dropsie the signe whereof is a great inflamation and heate in the skin: the cure is to seeth wormewood in water and salt, and give a pint thereof to the goate to drink divers mornings ) and rabbits (on madness in conies : you shall know it by their wallowing and rumbling with their heels upward leaping in their boxes. The cure is to give them harethistle to eat ). Book two has further chapters on poultry ( if your poultrie have sore eyes, you shall take a leafe or two of ground-ivie and chawing it in your mouth, suck out the iuyce and spit it into the sore eye ; To speake of the breeding of swannes is needlesse, because they can better order themselves in that business then any man can direct them, onely where they build their nests, you shall suffer them to remaine undisturbed, and it will b
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