2a8 Of Cures ChymrgicaL Lib. II. 



Bacon, and lay thereon Soot and Salt beaten togetherj mingled with 

 Greafe or Suet, Wax, and Pitch molten together ; and if the Flefh 

 chance to grow proud, eat it away either with Verdigreafe beaten 

 to Powder, or with the fcrapings of a HartVhorn, or an Qjc-horn 

 made into fine Powder. 



<§C1=* Other Farriers ufe to take of Soap, and of Hogs-Greafe, of 

 each half a pound, of Bole-Armoniack a little, of Turpentine a 

 quartern ; mix them well together, and make a Plaifter, and bind it 

 fall on, renewing it every day until it leave running ; and then wafli 

 ii; with ftrong-Vinegar being lukewarm, every day once, until the 

 Sore be clean dried up, and let the Horfe come in no wet until the 

 Sorance be whole. Others ufe only to bathe it continually with old 

 Stale fod with Salt, and that will dry upche Humour and heal i?., ^^ -u 



CHAP. CVI. Of tJ,e -fitter, l^on^'ij!^:^:^^^ 



TH E Quitter-bone is a hard round Swelling upon the Cronet bF 

 the Hoof betwixt the Heel and the Quarter, and groweth mod 

 commonly on the infide of the Foot, it breeds molt commonly by 

 means of Gravel gathered underneath the Shooe, which fretteth in- 

 ward, and forceth an Ulcer to break upward; or elfe it cometh by 

 the cloying or pricking of fome Nail driven by an ignorant Smhh, 

 the anguifh whereof loofeneth the Griftle^ and fo breedeth evil Hu- 

 mours whereof the Quitter-bone fpringeth : The Signs are. The Horfe 

 will halt much, and the fwelling is apparent to the Eye, which in 

 four or five days cometh to a head, and will break out with Matter at 

 a little deep hole like a Fiftula ; and furely than this Quitter-bone there. 

 is no outward Sorance whatfoever more dangerous to a Horfc. The 

 Cure thereof, according to the Opinion of fome of the ancient Far- 

 riers, is, Firft to cut the Hoof to the Quick, then feethe a Snake or 

 an Adder till the Flefh part from the Bone, and be molten as an Un- 

 guent ; then anoint the fore place therewith very warm even to the 

 bottom, and during the Cure, keep the Foot clean from any Filth ; 

 for this both drieth and killeth the Quitter-bone, i^ Others of the 

 old Farriers, firft burn about the Quitter^ bone with a hot Iron in man- 

 ner of a half Circle, and then with the fame Iron draw ano- >^p^ 

 ther right through the midft thereof in this fort; Then take f | A 

 of Arfenick the quantity of a Bean beaten into fine Powder, ^^^ -/ . 

 and put it into the Hole, thrufting it down to the bottom with'a, Quill, 

 and ftop the Month of the Hole with a little Tow, and bind it fofaft 

 with a Cloth and a P..owler, that the Horfe may not come at it with 

 his Mouth, and fo let it reft for that Day ; and the next Day if you fee 

 that the Sone looketh black within, then it is a Sign that the Arfnick did 

 work welli then to aUay the burning of it, Teat the hole with Flax 

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