198 Of Cures Cbymrgtcal, Lib 11. 



your Launcet let out all the Blood and Water ; then take a Brick-bat^ 

 and having laid it on the Fire., when it is exceeding hot, fold it in 

 a R^ed Cloth, and therewith rub the Splent, and fmooth it upon the top 

 till you have dried away the Blood, and that no more Moifture cometh 

 out ; then take of Pitch, of Rozin, and Maftich, of each a like 

 quantity, melt them well together, and being very hot lay it over and 

 all about the Splent ; then clap Flocks of the Colour of the Horfe's Leg 

 upon it, and fo let it reft upon the Splent until ic fall away of it fclf ; 

 and if when it is fallen away, you perceive that any part of the Splent 

 remain behind, which hardly will be, if it be orderly beaten i then 

 you fhall drefs that remained as you did the other before, and the 

 Splent will be perfedly cured. Now for the fureft and moft certain 

 way to take off a Splent, it is thus: With the Point of a fharp Knife, 

 make a flit of more than a Barley-corn length, juft upon the top in the 

 midft of the Splent, and let it be fo deep that you may be fure that the 

 Bone of the Splent is bare, then put into that flit with the Point of 

 your Knife, as much Mercury Sublimate as the quarter of a Hazel- 

 Nut-kernelj and witliin three or four Days, it will fo have eaten the 

 Splent, that ic will fall out of it felf ^ then you fhall heal up the Sore 

 cither with frefh Butter molten, or with a Plaifter of HogVgreafe, 

 and Turpentine mingled and melted together; only in this Cure you 

 muft beware, that you tie the Horfe fo_, as for Four and Twenty 

 Hours he may not touch the fore Place wi;h his Mouth. Now in 

 conclufion, I am to give you this fmall Prect pt to bear ever in your 

 Mind that is bochfor the healing of this, and for all other Humours 

 whatfoever ^ you muft firft ftay the falling down of the new Humours 

 to the place troubled, as by binding Plaifters, as Pitch, Rozin, Ma- 

 ftick. Red Lead, Oil, Bole-Armoniack, and fuch like ^ then to draw 

 out Matter which is there gathered with drawing Simples, as Wax, 

 Turpentine, and fuch like ; and laftly, to dry up the Relicks with 

 drying Powders, as Honey and lime, Oyfter-fhells, root, and fuch 

 like i and alfo you muft know, that 3II Splents, Spavens, or Knobs, 

 muft either be taken away at the Beginning, or after the Full of 

 che Moon. 



CHAP. LXXni. An approved and certain way to take a'ivay 

 any Solent without breaking any Hifir, 



A K E the Root of Eleciimpane well wafhed and cleanfed, and 



lap it in a brown Paper, wet it and roaft it in the hot Embers, 



as you would roaft a Wat den ; then as hot as the Horfe can fuifer it, 

 (for I would not have you fcald) after you have rubbed and chafd 

 the Excrefcion, clap this unto it, and bind it faft on, and in two or 

 three Dreilings it will confume away the Splent, 



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