*n6 Of Cures Chyrurgicd. Lib. II. 



fwell much, efpecially in the Winter, and about the Spring-time, and 

 he will go ftifly, and halt much. 



Now for the Cure, you (hall underftand, that whatfoever healeth 

 the Pains, the fame will in like fort heal thofe Kibed Heels •, yet for 

 more particularity, you fhall know, that the old Farriers did ufe for 

 this Sorance, if they took it at the beginning, but only to anoint it for 

 two or three Days with Soap, and then after to warn it with ftrong 

 Urine, or Beef Broth till it were whole ; but if it were of any long 

 Continuance, then, firft to cut away the Hair and lay the fore open and 

 plain ; then take two ounces of unflacked Lime, one ounce of Soap, 

 and the White of an Egg, or elfe an ounce of unflacked Lime, and 

 as much Salt, and three ounces of Soot, and mingling them with 

 ftrong Vinegar, anoint the fore therewith, and it will heal and kill 

 them. 



Other Farriers ufe to calcinate Tartar, and diflblve it to Water ,• 

 then congeal it like Salt, and mingle it with Soap like an Ointment, 

 and then drefs the Sore therewith, and this will in eight aud forty 

 hours heal any Mules, Pains, or Scratches whatfoever. If you take 

 the Juice of the Leaves and Roots of Elder, it is very good to dry up 

 any of thefe evil Humours. 



CHAP. XCIL Of Wiftd-GalU, 



TH E Wind-Gall is a little Bleb or Bladder full of corrupt Jelly, 

 and like the White of an Egg, growing on each fide of the Ma- 

 fter Sinew of the Leg, hard above the Paftern. Now of them fomc 

 will be big, and fome will be little, and there will be fometimes more 

 than one or two of a Clufter, and they are fo painful, efpecially in 

 the Summer- feafon, when the Weather is hot, and the Ways hard, 

 that the Horle is not able to travel, but haltcth downright^ they pro- 

 ceed commonly from extream I/abour in the Summer-time upon hard 

 Ways, whereby the Humours being diflblved, do flow and refort in- 

 to the hollow Places about the nether Joints, which are moft 

 beaten and feebled with Travel, and there are congealed and cove- 

 red with a thin Skin like a Bladder ^ they are moft apparent to be 

 feen and felt. 



The Cure thereof, according to the old Farriers, is, To take a 

 Knife, and open it in the length of a Bean, piercing no further into it 

 than through the skin of the Bladder, and then thruft out the Jelly, 

 which as I laid before, will be like the White of an Egg ; then take the 

 Yolk of an Egg- and as much Oil de Bay as a good Nut, and mixing 

 them together, make a Plaifter thereof, and lay it to the fore, and in 

 two Of three Days it will heal it. Others of the old Farriers drefs it 

 with Euforbium and Cantharides, in fuch fort as is fhewed for the 



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