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Mike
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posted 06-29-2004 06:55 AM

http://www.horseandhound.co.uk/news/397/56164.html

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posted 06-29-2004 09:06 AM

That is interesting. I came across Wynkyn de Worde's text while researching something else. It was on my list of things to look into at a later date.

Not related to horses but another book Wynkyn de Worde wrote is "The Book of Carving".

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posted 11-02-2006 07:10 AM

We did finally get a copy of "Propertyees of Medicyn for hors" from the British Library. Very interesting read. Scary at times, but highly recommended if you want to know something about late 15th c horse training and "veterinary" medicine in England.

I don't recommend anything in it.

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Mike
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posted 11-03-2006 01:05 AM

Glad that you have it. It is rather "interesting" isn't it?

There is one treatment where I think it is for a pulled muscle or something and it starts off about resting the horse in it's stable and you think "ah, sense at last" and then it goes into it's usual "take a launcett..." and you just sigh!

Like the description of breaking a horse to amble though!

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posted 11-03-2006 05:12 PM

Yes, it is interesting and one that I'd also never use on a horse.

I found the cure for Nightmares interesting.

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Mike
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posted 11-06-2006 03:40 AM

I can't remember that one, will have to go back and have another look!

Somebody gave me another recipe for equine "medicine" from the 1460s. I'll see if I can find it, although I think it was on the same lines using roasted eggs, etc for something.

Mike

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posted 07-08-2010 09:07 AM

There are several veterinary treatises from the 1450s - 1490s (WdW's being a block book of one of them).

My recent meandering down this path has led to several sources and has sent me down the path of medieval medicines and remedies.

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