355 ^he Jrt of F A 'B.KiEKY 



P-rick.% Nail?, and the like, which having been ne- 

 gkaed fliew the Farrier's Ignorance, or Owner's 

 Fault in not applying in Time. 



There are other Caufes^ alTign'd, but I cannot 

 .^ think they have any Hand in producing Quitter- 

 Bones, therefore I omit their Recital. 

 The Sign?. The Signs are Lamenefs, and a vifiBe Swelling 

 in the Place mentionM, which at laft breaks, and 

 runs Matter from a fmall Hole like unto a Fiftula. 

 The O- re. 'I\he Cure, of a Quitter-Bone is perform'd by burn- 

 ing feveral Holes in it pretty deep with a Cautery or 

 Piece of Iron, pointed pyramidically ; burn the 

 Holes fo big that you may put in Pieces of Subli- 

 mate Mercury, as big as Horfe- Beans, which let 

 flay there 'till there turns out a Core or' Lump of 

 putref ed Flefli ; after which drefs the Wound for 

 fome Time v^ith the green Ointment, p. 283. with 

 the Addition of Soot, as order'd in the Chapter of 

 the Farcin. 



It very often happens, that a Horfe lofes a Quar- 

 ter of his Hoof by a fevere Quitter-Bone ; for that 

 Part call'd the Coronet, being dellroy'd, and no 

 other Method yet found fo eifeftual as Burning in 

 the Manner I have defcribed, without which a Cure 

 cannot be efFeaed, therefore it is, that the Hoof 

 often parts in two Pieces, and remains fo while the 

 Horfe lives ; which fo weakens his Hoof, that when 

 a Stone happens to prefs harder upon that Part than 

 the reft of the Foot, he is ready to tumble down. 

 But 1 am apt to believe, that when the Hoof parts 

 quite thro' from the Coronet to the Sole, the Quit- 

 ter-Bone has been ill cured ; for by keeping the 

 Hoof dry, and lapping it round with Clukin, as the 

 Sailors call it, pretty well tar'd, from the upper to 

 the lower Part, it will preferve it together,^ and 

 caufe it to grow firm and llrong. Yet it requires a 

 quick Eye, and found Judgment, to tell when all 

 the Matter of the Quitter-Bone is deftroy'd, as vvell 

 as to preferve that Quarter of the Hoof from being 

 loft (as 'tis call'd). 



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