2o6 Of Cures Cbyrurgkal, Lib. II. 



of the hinder Leg, is by any Strain, Stroke, Slip, or fuch like, thruft 

 out of his right Place ; bur if the Stiiling-bone be not removed nor 

 loofened, and yet the Horfe halteth by means of fome grief in that 

 place, then we fay the Horfe is hurt in the Stifle^ and not Stifled. 

 The Signs are thefe; if the Horfe be ftifled^ the Stifie-Bone will ftick 

 out more of the one fide than of the other, and it is apparent to the 

 Eye, and in his halting he will no more but touch the ground with 

 his Toe. 



The Cure, according to the Opinion of the old Farriers, is. To 

 thruft two round Pins crofs the stifling-bone, through the Skin, in 

 fuch fort as you were taught for the Shoulder Pight ; but the Pins 

 would not be any thing near fo big, nor fo long, becaufe the Stifling- 

 bone is not fo broad as the Shoulder ; and ftanding in the Stable, let 

 him have a Paftern and a Ring upon his fore Leg, and thereunto faft- 

 en a Cord, which Cord muft go about his Neck, and let it be fo much 

 itrained, as it may bring his fore Leg more forward than the other, 

 to keep the Bone from ftarting > ut: But this Cure is foul and trouble- 

 fome, wherefore other Farriers of better Experience, ufe only to fee 

 a Parten-Shooe upon his found Foot, and fo turn him abroad, that he 

 may be compelled to tread upon his Lame Foot, and that {training of 

 it, will in a Day or two m;^ke him as found as ever he was, and put the 

 Stifling-bone into its true Place again. ^> But if you cannot readily 

 'get a Parten-Shooe, then you fhall take either a plain Surcingle^ or 

 any other broad binding Web that will go three or four times about the 

 Horfe's Leg, and wirh it you fhall Garter up the Horfe's found Leg 

 three Fingers above the flam, even upon his main great Sinew, fo 

 ilrait as your felf and another Man can draw it, and then turn the 

 Horfe abroad where he may go up and down, and in eight and forty 

 hours the Horfe will be as found as ever he was ; then rake oiF the Car- 

 eer, and rub the place that was Gartered up, wirh Frefh Butter, for it 

 will be much fwelled. • 



Now if this mifchance of Srifiing happen unto your Horfe in your 

 Travel, and that your Occafions will not fufFer you to flay for any of 

 thefe Cures, then you fliall take your Horfe either to fome deep Fond, 

 or deep River, that hath eafie going in and out, and there fwim him 

 up and down a dozen turns, which done, you may after travel him 

 at your Pleafure ; for the more he is laboured the founder he will go. 

 Now if your Horfe be not Stifled, but only hurt in the Stifle, either 

 with fome Stripe or fome Strain, then the Bone will not ftand out, 

 yet perhaps the place will be much fwelled. The Cure, according to 

 the Opinion of the old Farriers, is, To make a little flit in his Skin, 

 a handful below the fore place ; and then with a Quill blow all the 

 Skin from the Flefti upwards, and then with your hand prefs out the 



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