Lib. II. Of Cwes Chyrurgkcd, 205 



§CF* Butif theHorfebenot hipped^ but only hurt in the Hip, and 

 that newly^ then firft take of Oil de Bay;, Dialthea, of Nerve Oil, 

 and of SwinesGreafe, of each half a Pound ; melt them all together, 

 itirring them continually until they be throughly mingled together, 

 then anoint the fore place therewith againft the Hair^ every Day once 

 the fpace of a Fortnight, and make the Ointment fmk well into the 

 Flefli, by holding a hot Bar of Iron over the place anointed, waving 

 your hand to and fro till the Ointment be entered into the Skin ; and 

 if at the Fortnights end you fee the Horfe not any thing amended, 

 then flit a hole downward in his Skin, an Inch beneath the Hip-bone, 

 making the hole fo wide, as you may eafily thruft in a Rowel with 

 your Finger ; and then with a Cornet and a Quill, blow the Skin 

 from the Flefli above the Bone, and round about the fame, fo broad 

 as the Rowel may lie flat and plain wichin the Skin and the Flefh i and 

 this Rowel will be made of foft Calves Leather, with a hole in the 

 midfl;, and a thred tied unto it, to pull it out when you would cleanfe 

 it, and the hole i and if the Rowel be rolled about with Flax fafl: tied 

 on, and anointed with the Ointment under-written, it will draw fo 

 much the more. 



Now you muft thrufc in your Rowel firft double, and then fpread 

 it abroad with your Finger; that done. Tent it with a good large 

 Tent of Flax dipt in a little Turpentine and Hogs-greafe molren toge- 

 ther and made warm, and cleanfe the Hole and the Rowel every Day 

 once ; and alfo renew the Tent for the fpace of a Fortnight, and be- 

 fore you drefs him, caufe him every Day to be led up and down a foot 

 Pace a quarter of an Hour, to make the humours come down • and 

 at the Fortnights end pull out the Rowel, and heal up the Wound with 

 the fame '^alve, making the Tent every Day leffer and leflfer, untill it 

 be whole ,* and fo foon as it is whole, with a hot Drawing- Iron draw 

 crofs Lines of eight or nine Inches long, right over the Hip- hone, fo- 

 as the rowelled place may be in the very midft thereof, and burn him 

 no deeper but as the Skin may look yellow ; and then Charge all 

 that place, and over all his Buttocks with this Charge : Take of Pitch 

 one Pound, of Rozen half a Pound, and of Tar half a Pint, boil 

 them together, and then being good and warm, fpread it on with a- 

 Clout tied in a riven Stick, and then clap on a few Flocks of the 

 Horfe's Colour ; and if it be in Summer, let the Horfe run to Grafs a 

 while, for the more he travelleth at his own Will, the better it is for him, 



CHAP. LXXXIIL 0/ Stifling, and Hurtf in the Stifle. 



THat Horfe is faid to be Stifled, when the Stifling-bone, which is 

 a little bone of two Inches in length, lying between the nether 

 tni. of the Thigh-bone, and the upper end of the great Hough-bone 



of- 



