I ^1 Of Cures Chyrurgical. Lib. 11. 



means let the Borie eat any moift meat^ for cold;, muift, and Marifli 

 Feeding in «he Winter, only breedeth this Difeafe of Loofenels in 

 the Teethj and it is of all other, mofl proper to the Sorrel Horfes, 



CHAP. XXXVIII. Of Difeafes in the Neck and fi^'ithers^ and 

 firjt of the Crick in the Neck. 



TH E Crick in the Neck of the Horfe, is^, when he cannot turn his 

 Neck any way, but holds it ftill right forth, infomuch that he 

 cannot bow down his head to take up his Meat from the ground, bur 

 with exceedini< great Pain ^ and furelv it is a kind of Convulfion of 

 the Sinews, which proceedeth from cold Caufes, of which we have 

 fpoken very fufficicntly before ; it alfo proceedeth fometimesfrom over- 

 heavy Burthens that be laid upon a Horfc's fhoulders, or by over-much 

 djying up of the Sinews of the Neck. The Cure thereof, according 

 to the Opinion of the Ancient Farriers, is, Firft to thruft a fharp hot 

 Iron through the Flefli of the Neck in five feveral Places, every one 

 diftimt from the other three leches, (but in any cafe beware of touch- 

 ing any Sinew) then rowel all the aforefaid Places either with Horfe- 

 hair. Flax, or Hemp, for the Space of fifteen Days, and anoint the 

 Rowels with Hogs-greafe, and the Neck will foon be reftor'd. Others 

 ufe, if the Crick caufeth the Horfe to hold his Neck ftrait forward^ 

 which flieweth that both fides are equally perplexed, to take a hot 

 Drawing-Iron, and draw the Horfe from the Root of the Ear, on 

 both fides the Neck, from the midft of the fame, even down the 

 breaft. a flraw deep, fo as both ends may meet on the breaft ; then 

 make a hole through the skin of the Forehead, hard under the foretop, 

 ■and thrull in a Cornet upward between the skin and the fiefh, a hand- 

 ful deep; then either put in a Goofe-Feather doubled in the midft, and 

 anointed with Hogs-greafe, or elfe a Rowel of either Horn or Lea- 

 ther with a hole in the midft ; any of which will Jceep the hole open^ 

 to the intent the Matter may iflue forth ; and this you fhall keep open the 

 fpace of ten days, but every day during the Time, the Hole muft be 

 clcanfed once, and the Feather or Rowel alfo cleanfed and frefh 

 anointed and put in again ; and once a day let him ftand upon the bit 

 an hour or two, or elfe be ridden abroad two or three miles, by fuch 

 an one as will beat the Horfe's head, and make him bring it in^ but 

 if the Crick be fuch that it maketh the Horfe to hold his Head awry 

 upon the one fide, which flieweth that but one fide of the Neck is 

 troubled, then you fhall not draw the Horfe with a hot Iron on both 

 fides of the Neck, but only on the contrary fide, as thus: if he bend 

 his head towards the right fide, then to draw him, as is aforefaid^ 

 only on the left fide, and to ufe the reft of the Cure as is abovefaid, 

 and if Neceffity do require, you may fplent the Horfe's Neck alfo 

 flrait with ftrong fplems of Wopd. I. 



