iji Of Cures Chyrurgicah Lib II, 



Powder of Rozin, and nothing elfe. See farther of this Difeafe in 

 the new Addition for the Fittula,, marked thus V^ 



CHAP. XL VIII. Of a Canker in the Withers »f a Horfe. 



IF a Horfe after he hath been violently wrung upon the Withers_,. 

 be fuffered to go unlocked to, and that the fore breakech upward 

 through its own violence^ yet the greateft fubftanceof theMacceror 

 Corruption defcending and rotting (till downward^ irc.^nnoc chufb 

 but breed a C- nkerous and Vile Ulcer, as dar gerous as is a-iy Fiilula, 

 which y u fiiall know by thefe Signs ; Firflj the Matter that ilTuethfrom 

 the fore, will be fharp, hot, and waterifh lye, fretting the hair away 

 where it runneth down, and about the hole of the fore wili be a kind 

 of fpongeous, proud, dead flefh, which ftoppeth the palTagc^ of the- 

 grofs Matter. Now the Cure of this Cankerous Sore is, according to 

 the Opinion of the old Farriers, To take a Razor, and cut open the 

 hole of the Ulcer, fo that you may fee into the hollownefs; then cut 

 out all the dead flefh till you come to the quick, then take a quart of old ' 

 ftale Urine, and put thereto a handful of Salt ; then boil it well on 

 th-e fire, then having cleanfed the fore either with a Cloth or a wifp-^ 

 of Ha5% wafh it well with the Liquor ; then take the Yolks of four' 

 EggS:) and a Penny-worth cf Yerdigreafe, and a fpoonful of Flower, 

 and make a Plaifter thereof and lay it to the fore, dreffing him in' 

 this fort once a Day until it be whole. 



Others of our ancient and latter Farriers ufeto take of the ftrongefE ' 

 Beer a pint^ put into it a quarter of a pound of Allom, and haif i- 

 handful of Sage, feethe it to the one half, then take out the Sage- ■ 

 leaves, and with the reft drefs the Horfe once a Day, and it will heal . 

 any Cankerous Sore in any part whatfoever. 



CHAP. XLIX. Of the Stick-fafi, or Sit-fafi, tToms, or hard 

 Bones growing under the Saddle^ 



THefe Stick-fafts, Sit-fafts> or Horns, that grow in a Horfe*s skin 

 under the '^ addle, is a certain dead skin like a hard piece of 

 Leather, growing faft in the flefh ; k cometh of fome old bruiie, 

 which not impofthumating, the Skin falleth dead, and fticketh hard 

 and faft to the flefh. 

 f^ The Cure is, Take either a fharp crooked Tnftrument made for the 

 purpofe, or elfe along Nail, with the point turned inward, and catch* 

 irtg hold on the edge of the dead Skin, or Horn, which will clap or rife 

 from the found skin, and with a fharp Knife cutaway all the dead hard 

 skin from the found flefh ; and if when it is cut our, the hollownefs 

 fee fomewhat deep, then you fhall heal it up by pouring hot molten 

 Butter into it Evening and Movum^i then when the flelh is made even, 



dry 



