23 6 The Farrier V New Guide. Ch. LXXIX. 



CHAP. LXXIX. 



Of a Ring-bone. 



•THIS is a hard callous Subftance, which grxjws in the 

 hollow Circle of the little Paftern, immediately above 

 Xh^ Cronct ; it is fometimes hereditary, but more frequently 

 occafioned by a Strain, and is bred of the like Matter with 

 the otner hard Subftances we have treated of in the preceed- 

 ing Chapters ; fometimes it goes quite round like a Rino", 

 from whence it has obtained the Name of Ring-bone. ^ 

 The Cure. ^^^ ^^""^1 Method of takingit off,* is by 



r T- r-» . - ^^^^PP^^^^^'O'^ of itfongcauftick Medicines, 

 feh as QuKTk-lime, Arfenick, Realgar, and the like, the 

 Hair being hril fhav'd, and the hard Subltance fcanify'd. 

 borne ufe unJlack'd Lime in Powder, and apply it pretty 

 thick ov^r the Part, faftening it with a Cloth, and then 

 nde the Horte into Water, letting him ftand fome time in 

 Jt ; by which Meaiis the Subftance of the Ring-bone is de- 

 Itroyd and there is nothing further necellary than to heal 

 up the Ulcer. This is a very expeditious Way, but whoever 

 tr.es It had need be careful to guard the Cmiet, or elfe it wili 

 be apt to caufe a gathering of Matter under the Hoof, which 

 would readily corrode the Coffin-bone. There aie others 

 mo cut the Ring-ljone ftreight downwards to the Cronct, 

 in feveraJ Places, and put in Rowels; which, by forming 

 Uicerij, and bringing a Rottenneis and Corruption all about 

 o^!^' caufe the Excreicences to ioofen or melt away. 

 o^//07^// obferves, that fume Ring-bones cannot be re- 

 movea without giving the Fire, nor doe^j that always fuc- 

 ceed, but when the Soal is alfo taken out, and the Frufh 

 iaid open ; (or by this there is a very great Moiiture deriv'd 

 imo the Part, and at the fame Time Room is given for the 

 Matter to diicharge itfelf, which might otherwiie loofen the 

 ^T'i\l ^^^^S "^"^^'^^^'^ '" ^^'^ ho'^^^v Circle of the Paftern. 

 I ^^ ""^'f^ '"^ '^'' •' " l^s^e out the Soal, and after the . 

 ,, ^;cond brciiing, cut the Skin in feveral Places above the 

 - . 'T' /"" ^' ^? ^i/ ^^'^ Kmg-bone bare; then with a 

 ^^ hot Knife cut the Ring-bone thro' the Incilions till you 

 ^^ reach to the Bottom, -not all at once, but repeating the 

 ^^ Strokes gently ; in the mean time make a Cleft intS the 

 •. r ', '' and keep it open by applying into it Pledgits 

 u ''^' ^" ' ^^^'-^^^/^ ""J '^^^> Honey, and Turpentine; 



