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rious Afpeds, fome refembling a Hen*s Fundament, ancf 

 fome (as is not uncommon to Excrefcencts of that Kind)- 

 having no diftin6l Refemblance to any Thing in Nature ; 

 but as they all agree in their Compadlnefs and Solidity, 

 Avhereby they have feldom any great Tendency to vi^afte, 

 after they have once acquir'd fuch a Difpofition ; the Me^ 

 thod propos'd in this Intention may therefore be put in 

 Pradice, fo as they may be altogether rooted out ; and th\s 

 is to be done either by cutting or burning, or both, according 

 as different Circumftances may require. 



The Knife is the moft expeditious in all cafes where they 

 are loofe, and not firmly feated with a large Adhefion to the 

 Flefli, and when they lie off from the larger VeiTels, applying 

 afterwards Ibme cicatrizing Medicine ; but this Method can- 

 not be oblerv'd with refped: to the whole, but only to thofe 

 which by Accident put forth in fuch a manner ; and therefore 

 burning Medicines, or the Fire itfelf, mult alfo be us'd. 

 ir/je Method of ^^^ ^^ ought carefully to be taken Notice 

 making caujlick of, that in all Cafes where Medicines are 

 Applications in to be apply'd, whofe immediate Operation 

 the iarcin. confills in con fuming the Parts to which they 

 are laid ; if the Difeafe be univerfal, and fpread over divers 

 Parts of the Body at once, as that under our prefent Con- 

 iideraiion, thofe of the mildeft Operation are firft to be 

 comply'd with ; and that they may the more ealily take 

 Effed, the Parts ought either to be rubb'd till they become 

 fomewhat raw, or be gently fcarrify'd with a Fleam. 

 ■^ zdly. If Recourfe muft be had to more powerful Medi- 

 cines, or to the ufe of Fire, as is neceflary in obltinate Cafes; 

 and if there be a vaft Number of Excrefcences to bedeflroy'd, 

 and thefe feated in divers parts of the Body, you ought not to 

 attack thefe all at once, but by degrees bring fome to Digef- 

 tion and Matter before you begin with others ; for the com- 

 municating too great a Heat to divers parts of the Body at 

 once, as mull happen from Itrong cauftick Medicines, or 

 adual Fire, will either deltroy your Horfe,by throwing him 

 into violent and fudden Diforders, or at leaft create a bad 

 pifpofiiion, which, inftead of making a Cure, will render 

 him much worfe, as might be eafily demonftrated. 



3c'//v. The Situation of the Parts is alfo very much to 

 be regarded in this Intention, and all fuch harfli Applica- 

 tions ought to be gently and fparingly us'd to the Limbs 

 and dependent Parts, and likcwife to the Sheath and other 

 foft Parts, to tlie Region of the Heart and Kidneys, ^c, 

 and when they have been apply'd to thofe Parts, the Fire 



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