Lib. II. Of Cures Chyrurgical, 009 



Others ufe to prick the Spaven with a fharp-pointed Knife, then 

 take a piece of Candle, and lay a piece of brown Paper upon it, and 

 with an hot Iron melt the Tallow, and after anoint it with Butter, 

 Others ufe firft to prick the Spaven well, then to lay upon it, for three 

 or four days together, every day, Man's Dung : after that, lay to it 

 Galbanum till the fore Matter and Rheum, and the Humour come torth^ 

 then waih it with Urine ^ and laftiy, heal it up with Oil and Honey 

 boiled together, for that will bring on the Hair. 



Now to conclude, that which I have ever found to be the fureft and 

 the cleaneft way to take the Bone-Spaven quite away, if it be ufed with 

 difcretion and care, is. To take of Unguentum Apoftolorum, and of 

 white Mercury, of each a little quantity, but of Mercury rather the 

 more ^ mix them well together ; then after you have caft your Horfe, 

 make a flit juft the length of the Spaven, fo that you touch not the 

 Mafter-vein -, then opening it, and laying all the Spaven bare, with a 

 fharp Inftrument fcale the Spaven a little ^ then make a plegant of Lint 

 juft fo big as the Excretion or Bone-Spaven is; then fpreading fome of 

 the Salve thereon, lay it upon the Spaven ; then with dry Lint detend 

 all other parts of the Member, efpecially the Maftcr-vcin from the 

 Corrofive^ then lay the Plaifter of Pitch, Rozen, Turpentine and 

 Hogs greafe before fpoken, round about his Hoof, and fo let him reft 

 four and twenty Hours; then take away all that Medicine, and fcaling 

 the Bone a little, if you find the Corrofive have not gone deep enough, 

 then drefs it in the fame manner the fecond time, and that will be al- 

 together fufficient; then rake of Turpentine, of Deers-fuet, and of 

 Wax, of each a like quantity, and mix and melt them well together, 

 then drefs the fore place therewith, being warmed, and Lint or Tow 

 dipt therein, and within a Day or two you fhall fee the whole cruft of 

 the Spaven come clean away, then may you with the fame Salve, 

 heal up the Wound ; and this Bathe never failed me in any Pradice. 

 *> Alfo underftand, that whatfoever taketh away the Splent, taketh 

 away the Spaven alfo. 



CHAP, LXXXV. Of the Blood Spaven, vjet Spave»y or 



through Spaven. 



TH E Blood Spaven, wet Spaven, or through Spaven, (for all is 

 one Difeafe) is a foft Swelling growing on both fides the Hoof, 

 and feems as though it went through the Hoof, whereby it is called a 

 through Spaven; but for the moft part, the Swelling on the infide 

 (becaufe it is fed continually of the Mafter-vein) is greater than the 

 fwelling on the oatfide ; it proceedeth from a more Huxible and 

 flegmy Humour, and not fo vifcous and flimy, as the other Spaven 

 doth ; and therefore this never waxeth hard, nor groweth to a Bone, 



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