Lib. II. Of Cmes ChyrurgtcaL ly^ 



CHAP. LVIII. Of the Itch, Scab, or Manginefs in the Tail, 

 or generai falling of the Hair. 



HOrfes, through the Corruption of Bloody or thefulnefsof Rank 

 feeding, or through over-heating and labouring, or by the in- 

 fedion of other Horfes, do many times get the general Scab, Itch 

 or Manginefs in the Tail, and fometimes in the Spring-time Horfes 

 are often troubled with the Truncheon Worms in their Fundament 

 which will make them rub their Tails, and fret the Hair, yet are free 

 both from Mange and Scurf. Wherefore if then you only Rake the 

 Horfe with your Hand, anoint it with Soap, and pull out the *«Vorms 

 you (hall caufe the Horfe to leave his rubbing ; but if you perceive the 

 Hair to fhed and fall from the Tail, through fome fmall Worms that 

 grow at the Roots of the Hair, or through fome little fretting Scurf, 

 then you fhali anoint all the Tail with Soap even to the Ground and 

 then wafh it with very Itrong Lye after, and that will both kill the 

 Worms, and fcour out the Scurf; but if much of the Tail be fallen 

 away, then you fhall keep the Tail continually wet with a ffmnge 

 dipt in fair Water, and that will make the Hair to grow very faft. 

 Now if in the Horfe's Tail fhall grow any Canker, which will confume 

 both the Flefh and Bone, and make the Joints to fall awav^ one by one 

 then you fhall wafh all his Tail with Aqua-Fortis, or ftrong Water 

 made in this fort: Take of green Copperas and of Allom, of each 

 one Pound, of white Copperas a quartern, boil all thefe together in 

 three Quarts of Running- Water, in a very flrong Earthen Pot, until 

 one half be confumed ; and then with a little of this Water, being made 

 lukewarm, wafli his Tail with a little Clout or Flax bound to the end 

 of a Stick, continuing fo to do every day once till it be whole. But 

 if, as I faid before, through the Corruption of Blood, Food or La- 

 bour, this Scab, Itch, or Manginefs, fpread univerfally into many 

 Parts of the Tail, you (hall then likewife wafh it with the fame flrong 

 Water until it be whole. 



CHAP. LIX. of the general Scah, Manginefs^ or Leprofie over 



the whole Body. 



THe general Manginefs, or Leprofie, which runneth all over the 

 Horfe's Body, is a cankered filthy Scurf which covereth the 

 fame, proceeding from abundance of melancholy corrupt Blood, in- 

 gendred by infecftion or unwholefome Food, or elfe by indifcreec La- 

 bour. The Signs whereof are, the Horfe will be all mangy, and cove- 

 red over with a white filthy fcurf, full of Scabs, and raw plats about 

 the Neck and Flanks, and ill favoured to look on, and rubbing, 



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