i^o of Cnref Cbyrurgkal, Lib. IL 



Chap. XXII. Of a Horfe that is Lave-Ear^d^ and how to help him. 



FO R a Horie to be Lave-Ear'd, is as foul a Dilgrace and as miicli 

 Deformity to his Beauty, as to want the true Proportion and Ufe ot 

 any oucward Member whatfoever. It proceedeth from a Natural Infir- 

 mity, and is ingendred even from the firft Conception, and although few 

 of our Farriers either have endeavoured themfelves, or know how to help 

 , it ; yet there is nothing more certain than that in this fort it may be 

 cured. Firft, Take your Horfe's Ears, and place them in fuch manner 

 as you would have them ftandjand then with two little Boards^ or pieces 

 of Trenchers three Fingers broad, having long Strings knit unto them, 

 bind the Ears fo faft in the places where they ftand, that by no Means or 

 Motion they may ftir : Then betwixt the Head and the Root of the Ear, 

 you fnall fee a great deal of empty wrinkled Sl^in, which with your Fin- 

 ger and your Thumb you ihall pull up, and then with a very iliarp pair 

 Scizzars you iliall clip away all the empty Skin clofe by the Head, and 

 then witli a Needle and red Silk you fnall ftitch the two fides of the Skin 

 clbfe together, and then with a Salve made of Turpentine, Deers Suet, 

 ar.d'Hoi:ey, of each a like Qiiantity melted together and made mto an 

 Ointment^ heal up the Sore ^ which done, take away the Splents which 

 held up his Ears, and you fl-.all fee within a fliort time that his Ears will 

 keep the fame place'ftill where you fetthem, without any alteration: 

 And this you fhall ever find to be as certain and true as the healing of a cut 

 Finger, 



Chap. XXIII. 0/ the V7ves or hard Kernel's between the Chaps and the Neck. 



THE Vives are certain great Kernels which grow from the Root of 

 the Horfe's Ears, down to the lower part of his nether Jaw, be- 

 tween the Chap and the Neck •, they are in proportion, long, narrow, 

 and round, and are natural things, proper and due to every Horfe : But 

 when either through ranknefs of Blood, or abundance of corrupt Hu- 

 mours reforting to that place, they begin to be inflamed, then they be- 

 come very foul Sorances, and Impofthum.ations moft dangerous : They 

 are inwardly very full of little white fait Kernels, and they breed great 

 pain in the Horfe's Throat. This Difeafe as far forth as I can find by any 

 Demonftration, is the Difeafe which in Men we call the Squinacy or 

 Quinzy, and not as fome of the old Farriers fuppofe, the Strangle ; for 

 that hath no coherence with the Infirmity. For the figns of the Difeale, 

 there needs fmall reception, infomuch as the Grief is apparent to the 

 Eye : And the Cure, according to the Opinion of the oldeft Farriers, is 

 thus -^ if you fee the Kernels begin to rankle and fwell, you fhall take the 

 Horfe's Ear and laying it down along the Neck of the Horfe, at the very 



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