RECIPES. 371 
.TO CURE RING-BONES ON HORSES. 
Cut the ring-bone in two three or four times, wash it with 
the Pain Extraetor and anoint with dog’s grease; or dissolve 
blue vitriol in oil of spike, rub it without cutting, and grease 
it with eel oil; or bathe it with tanners’ oil fifteen ninu 
with a hot shovel, do this once a day for three weeks, then 
bathe it with sweet oil as above. Take one-half ounce oil of 
spike and one-half ounce aqua-fortis, mix the two together, 
droping in. the oil _of vitriol drop. by drop until the phial is 
quite warm, but not to blaze; cast the horse and cut from 
the knape of the fetter-lock joint, skin deep about two inches, 
and if a ring-bone, you will find a small cord running round 
the ankle very close, draw that with nippers as fast as you 
can and cut it off both ways; put on the above liquor and 
let it remain two hours; then apply the oil of angle-worms 
all around the foot and in the sore, twice a day until well. 
Or when it first comes, anoint it with cusk oil two or three’ 
times a day; or take toads, split them open and bind them 
on the ankle tight, fasten them on and turn the horse out till 
he gets well; or bind on stink-weed in the same manner. 
Take one pint tanners’ oil, One pint spirits turpentine, two 
ounces verdigris, dissolved in one-half pint vinegar, and two 
ounces oil of spike; mix them all together, and once in two 
days anoint the ring-bone with a spoonful and bathe it in - 
with a hot iron till the ring-bone is eaten arers afterwards 
rub it with mutton tallow till well. ; : 
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FOR A HARD SINEW SPRAIN, THOUGH PAST CURE. 
Take shoemaker’s thread, melt the greasé of it, and rub it 
in hot with your hand—heat it in with a hot iron. 
