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Hair, and apply this warm and thick fpread either 

 upon Tow, or Leather, and bind it on for fome 

 Time till it ofFers to come ofF eafily, after which 

 heal the Wound with the Green Ointment, ( page 

 283. ) Scm3 give the Fire in thefe Cafes with Suc- 

 cefs ; but I believe the Method I have fet down has 

 cured more than any other, and if it fail I think 

 Firing will not work a Cure ; nor would it do be- 

 fore, if the Excrefcence be of fuch Hardnefs, as that 

 it will not yield to the above Application, &c. 



It is worth obferving, that thefe Kinds of bony 

 Excrefcences muft either be nipt in the Bud, or they 

 will foon become of fuch Firmnefs and Solidity, that 

 they will not yield to one Thing or other j and that 

 by Rubbing and Beating them with a Stick of any 

 •fort of Wood, tho' fome advice Ha^le as the beft, 

 the hard Subftance is brought foft as Jelly, and will 

 therefore more eafily be difperfed or cHfToIved by 

 the Plaiiler, &c. 



I fnall not enlarge upon the Subject of thefe bdny^cne Spa- 

 Excrefcences; for the fame Method, which will"^'''' -^"^ 

 cure a Ring-bone or Ofslet, will do in Cafe of ''■^^^' 

 Bone-fpavins ; only in the Cure of the laft it may 

 be proper to keep the Back-fmew well oiled now 

 and then with Oil of Swallows for fear the fame 

 contrad too much, which it will often do when 

 the Fire has been given deep : But if the Method 

 I have fet down be praclifed, there is not near fo 

 much Danger of Contra6lion. 



The Blood-Spa^vi?! is a Dilatation or Swelling of Blocd- 

 a Vein on the Infide of the Horfe's Hough, and in Spavin, 

 Human Bodies we call this Diforder a Varicofe- 

 fwelling, wliere the Blood in the Vein turns into 

 a Kind of Eddy, and forms fuch Tumours. 



The Cure of a Blood-Spavin is the fame as that The Cure. 

 for an Aneurifm or Dilatation of an Artery, only 

 one Thing material muft be minded, in which the ^"- Thing 

 tying up a Vein, and tying up an Artery, diiFer "^''^^ '^'^^^' 

 in an emiiient Degree j for the Arterial-Blood ciix:u- obltrvcd in 



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