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per to Powder, and blow thereof into the Horfe's Eye. Others ufe to 

 take of Pumis-ftone, of Tartarum, and Sal-gemma, of each a like weight, 

 and being beaten into very fine Powder, to blow a little of that into the 

 Horfe's Eye, continuing {o to do till the Eye be well. Others ule only to 

 blow the Powder of Sandevoir into the Horfe's Eye, affirming that it alone 

 hath fufficicnt Force andVertue to break ary Pearl or Web in a iliort fpace, 

 without any other Compoiition : But furely I have found the Powder of 

 Flint, and the Powder of white Salt burnt, to be much ftronger. 



Chap. XII. A mofi excellent and infJUhle Cure for any Firij Web, or Pearl, 



or Spot in a Horfes Eye, 



TA K E an Egg, and make a hole in the top, put out half the White, ^^ 

 then fill up the empty place with Salt and Ginger finely mixt toge- ^=^^ 

 ther, then roaft the Egg extream hard, lb as you may beat it to fine Pow- 

 der, having formerly lapt it in a wet Cloath^ then Morning and Evening, - 

 after you have waflit the Horle's Eye with the Juice of Ground-Ivy, or 

 Eye-bright-water,you fliall blow of this Powder therein, and it is a certain 

 Remedy. 



Chap. XUI. Of the Haw in a Horfe^s Eye. 



TH E Haw is a Grilile growing betwixt the nether Eye-lid and. the 

 Eye, and it covereth fometimes more than the one half of the Eye.It 

 proceedeth of grofs and tough Flegmy Humours, which defcending down 

 from the Head, and knitting together, do in the end, grow to a Horn or 

 hard Griftie. the Signs thereof are a watring of the Eye, and an unwil- 

 ling opening of the nether Lid, belides an apparent fhew of the Haw it 

 lelf^ if with your Thumb you do put down the nether Lid of the Horle's 

 Eye. The Cure is,Take a Needle and a double Thred, put it through the 

 tip of the Horfe's Ear, which done, put the Needle likewile through the 

 upper Eye-lid of the Horfe upwards, and fb draw up the upper Eye-lid, 

 and faften it to the Ear, then with your Thumb put down the nether Lid, 

 and you fliall plainly fee the Haw : Then thruft your Needle through the 

 edge of the Haw,and with the Thred draw it out, fo as you may lap it a- 

 bout your Fiiiger, to hold it conflantly, and then with a very fliarp Knife, 

 cut crofs the Griftie of the infide next the Horfe's Eye, and lb feparating 

 the Skin and the Fat from the Griflle, cut the Griftie quite out ^ theii 

 cutting your Threds, draw them clean out, both of the Eye-lids, and out 

 of the Haw : Then walk all the Horfe's Eye with Ale,Beer,or White-wine, 

 and pluck away all the long Hairs from about the Horfe's-'Eyes, being fine 

 to leave no Blood within the Horfe's Eye. And in this mfererof Cure, 

 you muft obferve, that by no means you cut away two much of- the Wafk 

 or Fat by the Haw, or any part of the Black that groweth about tlie end 

 of the Haw, for that will make the Horfe Blear-eyed -^ there be other 

 Farriers which ufe after they have cut out the Haw, to anoint the Eye 



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