154. Of Cures Cbyrurgkd. Lib. 11. 



Wacer : after the Sore is broken, lay Bran fteep'd in Wine unto it, 'till 

 it be whole. Others ufe to cut the Kernels out between the Jaws, 

 and then to wafh the Sore with Butter and Beer, giving the Horfe to 

 drink new jMilk and Garlicky, and the Juice of the Leaves of Birch^ or 

 in Winter the Bark of Birch, or elfe to anoint it with Tar and Oil *till 

 it be whole. Now, for mine own part^ the belt Cure that ever I 

 found for the Strangle, was this : 



As foon as I tound the Swelling begin to arife between his Chaps, to 

 take a Wax Candle, and holding it under the Horfe 's Chaps, clofe un- 

 to the Swelling, burn it fo long 'till you can fee the Skin be burnt 

 through. To that you may, as it were, raife it from the Hefh ; that 

 done, you Ihall lay unto ir, either wet Hay or wet Horfe-Lirter, and 

 that will ripen it, and make it break, then lay a Plaifter unto it only 

 of Shooe- Makers Wax, and that will both draw and heal it. Now 

 if it break inward, and will not break outward, and fo avoideth only 

 at his Nofe, then ye fhall twice or thrice every Day, perfume his 

 Head, by burning under his Noftrils either Frankincenfe or Maftick, 

 or elfe by putting a hot Coal into wet Hay, and fo making the Smoak 

 thereof to afcend up into the Horfe's Head ; or elfe to blow the Pow- 

 der of Euforbium with a Quill into his Nofe ; and fo note, that what- 

 foever cureth the Vives, cureth the Strangle alfo, 



CHAP. XXVIl. of the Cankerous Ulcer in the Nofe. 



T''Hat which we call the Cankerous Ulcer in the Nofe, is only 3 

 fretting Humour, eating and confuming the Flefh, and making 

 it all raw within, and not being holpen in time, will eat through the 

 Nofe. It cometh of corrupt Blood, or elfe of a (harp Humour ingen- 

 dred by means of exrream C old. 



The Signs are. The Horfe will often bleed at the Nofe, and all the 

 flefh within his Nofe will be raw, and filthy {linking Savours, and 

 Matter will come out at the Nofe. 



The Cure thereof, according to the ancient Farriers, is. Take of 

 oreen Copperas and of Allom, of each a Pound ; of white Copperas 

 one Quartern, and boil thefe in a Pottle of running Water, until a Pmt 

 beconfunvid ; then take it off and put thereto half a Pi«^of Honey, 

 then caufe his Head to be holden up with a drenching-ltaff, and fquirt 

 into his Noftrils with a Squirt of Brafs or Pewter, fome of this Water 

 being lukewarm, three or four times one after another ; but betwixt 

 every fquircing give him leave to hold down his Head, andtofnort 

 out the filthy Matter; for otherwife perhaps you might choak him; 

 and after this it (hall be good alfo without holding up his Head any 

 more to wafh and rub his Noftrils with a fine Clout bound to a Stick s 

 End and dip d in the afoiefiid Water, and do thus once a Day until the 



Horfe 



