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cause, the farrier can remove it presently, but if the foot 

 is not hurt by some unknown accident, make a poultice 

 of any sort of greens^ such as lettuce^ cabbage, marsh- 

 mallow leaves, turnip tops, or turnips themselves, the 

 best of all ; boil them tender, squeeze the water out, 

 chop them in a wooden bowl, with two or three ounces 

 of hog\s lard or butter ; put this poultice into a cloth, 

 and tie hi* foot in it all night, as hot as you can. 



In the morning, when the farrier comes to take off his 

 shoe, he will find his hoof cut soft and easy, so that he 

 will soon discover (in paring with his buttrice) whether 

 he is pricked or bruised. 



GRAVELLED. 



A misfortune that sometimes happens to a horse on a 

 journey : it consists in little pebbles getting between the 

 shoe and the hoof and settling there, so as to get to the 

 quick and fester. The only way to cure it is to takeoff 

 the shoe, and then draw the place with a drawing-iron 

 till you come to the quick; this done, pick out the 

 gravel and squeeze out the matter and blood that is 

 ■found collected there. Then wash the parts well with 

 simple tincture of myrrh, and stop up the hole with 

 hurds wet in the same. After which let the shoe be 

 carefully put on again, and in two or three times thus 

 dressing, he will get well. But do not travel, or work 

 him, before he is so, nor let his foot go into the wet, 

 which would greatly retard his cure. 



PRICKED. 



A horse's foot is pricked by having a nail driven too 

 far into it at the time of shoeing, so as to reach the 

 quick, or press the vein, and cause lameness. When a 



