ipo ^he Art ^/Farriery 



Jlamp or beat them ^j ell up in frejh Butter, as many 

 as you can make the Butter take up ; then fet it in a 

 Tot in a Cellar for a Fortnight or longer ^till the 

 Flo'-wers are fufficiently rotted in the Butter ; <vchen 

 this is doney boil it a nxjhile ; then fir ain and keep it 



for Ufe. 



This Ointment you muft know was held ns a par- 

 ticular Secret with an old Doftor of my Acquain- 

 tance, who had a vaft deal of Experience, I think 

 at leafl fifty Years, when he told me of it, and 

 that he never found any Thing exceed its Virtues in 

 refolving Tumours of the Glandulous Parts, ^c. 

 and he {aid he had frequently cured Colts of his own 

 Breeding by the Ufe of it, when the common Means 

 ufed by Farriers had faiPd ; tho' I confcfs I want 

 Faith to think there is any more in this Ointment 

 than in others prepared for the like Intentions, fuch 



" as the Ointment of Marjh-Malhv.'s, P aim-Oil, <Scc. 

 which adl in the Manner before fet down as E7nol~ 

 lients. 



If the Matter of the Stra}?gles, Fi^'esy &c. can 

 be felt to fluftuate under one's Finger upon the Pref- 

 fure of the Tumour, it is bell to llit open the Swel- 

 ling, according to the Direflion of tlie Fibres, the 



. whole Length of the Sinus or hollow Part, and 

 drefs the Wound with Dozels of Tow dipp'd in the 

 following Ointment very warm. 



Take Rojin, and Burgundy Pitch, of each one 

 Pound and half; HoTiey, and common Turpentine, 

 each eight Ounces ; yelloiv Wax, four Ounces ; freJh 

 ■Butter boiled and clarified, one Pound j Verdegreafe 

 of France finely po%vderd, one Ounce : Mix. 



Firfl melt the Rofm, Pitch, and Turpentine to- 

 gether with the Bees-Wax fhaved in fmall Pieces ; 

 then boil them up with the clarified Butter, and put 

 the Ointment into a Pot that will abide the Fire, 

 and ftir in the Verdegreafe by Degrees, 'till the 



whole 



