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dry and skin it either with the Powder of Honey and Lime, ©r with 

 Soot and Cream mixt together. Otheis'ufe firft to anoint the Stick- 

 filler hard Skin wich frefn Butter or Hogs greafe^ until it be mollified 

 andnaade foft; fo as you may either cut them or pull them .iway, and 

 then wafh the Wound cither with Man's Urine, or with White- wine 

 a;.d then dry it up With the Powder of Oyfter {hells,, or Bole- 

 Armoniack. 



C H A P. L, 0/ Wens or Knohs gr9w;ng about the Saddle- Skirts. 



THE Wens orKnobs which grovv about rhe Saddle-Skirts, do moft' 

 commonly grow betwixt two Ribs, and do ever proceed of old 

 Bruifes; and the Cure is, firft to mollifie them by anointing them 

 twice or thrice a Day wich Hogs-greafe. for more than a Week to- 

 gether, and Tomcriraes to bathe them with hot Wine-Lees ; but if ii» 

 that rpace it- wilLcome to no head then Lance it from the middle 

 dovvnwards, ami Tent? it with waflied Turpentine, Yolks of Eggs, 

 and Saffron mingled as well together as is before fhewed. renewing 

 the Tent every Day once, until the Sore be fufficiencly and perfedly 

 healed. Look unto the Cure for the Splent, and what cureth that, 

 helpe th this. > u\ : A v. . ; ij 



C H A -^. LL Of the Navel^Gall. 



npH E Navel Gall" is, when a Horfe at any time is bruifed on the top^ 

 ■-■ of the Chine of the B-ick, behind the Saddle, right againft the 

 Navtl, whence it taketh the Name: it cometh either by fplitting of 

 the ; addle bthifid^ .or forlack of fluffing, or by means of the Crup- 

 per-Buckle fitting down in chat place, or through fome hard weight 

 or knobs lying diredly behind the Saddle ; of all bruifmgs on the back, 

 it is the moft vile and dvsngei ous, and you fhidl perceive it by the puffed 

 up and Ipcngy fltfh lookii.g like old rotten Lights about the JViOuth- 

 of the iore. 1 he Cure thereof is, according co fome of the ancient 

 Farriers, firft to cut away all the dead or proud flefh even to the Bone, 

 then burn a hole four Inches lower than the Navel-Gall, and put a 

 Rowtl of Hortl-hair through it; then take the Powder of Oyfter^ 

 fhelL, or of any od Shooe-fole burnt, and ftrow it ontheforCj and 

 as it growech moift put on more Powder. 



Other Farriers for the Navel-gall, do take the White of an Egg, 

 Wheat flower, Honey, Maftard and Soap, of each a iikequantity, and 

 mixing them to>i:ether, make a Plaifter thereof, and after the dead flefh 

 is taken out, at d the fore wafh'd wich Ale, Butter, a-d Urine^ then'' 

 lay on the Plaifter ; and if the proud flefh begi to grow again, then' 

 the PoA'der of an oid burnt Shooe. or Nerve Oil, or Verdlgreafe will 

 kill it, and the Powder of Oyfter-iheUs will skin it. Others of the 



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