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Draconis, and of new Wax and Sheeps-Suet, as rauch as of the firft^ 

 and melt and boil them very well together, and let this Ointment be 

 applied once a Day till the Sore be whole. But if you perceive that 

 any new Hoof come, then ciit away the old, left the hardnefs of the 

 one hinder the tendernels of the other; and then anoint the new 

 Hoof with Suet, Oil, and Wax, of each alike, boiled together, to 

 make it grow ; or elfe with the Pitch of Greece^ Maftick^ Olibanum, 

 Sanguis Draconis, and Galbanum of each alike, being molten with 

 Suet ; for this will make the new Hoof to grow alfo. 



8^ So will alfo new Wax, Honey, Oil, Swines-greafe, and Sheeps 

 fued, being boiled together; and when it is cold, add Maftick, 

 Sanguis Draconis, and Frankincenfe, and incorporate them al! toge- 

 ther ; for nothing fooner than this will make either new or old Hoofs 

 grow. Others ufe to take Shell- Snails, and ftamp them and lay them 

 twice a Day to the Sore, and it will either faften the old Hoof, of 

 quickly bring forth a new. Now there be other Farriers, which firft 

 fill the fore with Turpentine, and after it has lain twenty four hours^ 

 then wafh the Sore with Urine and Copperas- Water, then fill it either 

 with Verdigreafe, or wich Sheeps Tallow, Pitch, and Rozen boiled 

 together; in which, having dipt hurds, lay it to the Sore very hot 

 twice a Day till it be whole. 



CHAP. CXVI. 0/ Cafting the Hoof. 



TH E Cafting of the Hoof, is, when the whole Coffin thereof fal- 

 leth clean away from the Foot, which cometh of all the former 

 Caufes rehearfed in the laft Chapter, and is fo apparent to the Eye, 

 tha: it needeth none other Signs. Now for the Cure, it is thus : Take 

 of Turpentine one pound, of Tar half a pint, of unwjought Wax 

 half a pound, of Sheeps-Suet half a pound, and of Sallet-Oil half a 

 Pint; boil all thefe things together and ftir them continually until 

 they be throughly mixt together; then make a Boot of Leather, with 

 a ftrong foal fit for the Horfe's foot, to be laced faft about the Paftern; 

 then drefs his foot with the Salve aforefaid laid upon Flax or Tow, and 

 bolfter and ftop his foot with foft Flax io that the Boot may grieve him 

 no manner of ways, renewing it every Day once until the new Hoof 

 come ; then as the Hoof beginneth to harden, if it grow either thick, 

 crumpled, or out of order, with a fine Rape File keep it fmooth and 

 plain, until the Hoof be perfe^, and then put him to Grals, that 

 there it may take a kindly hardning and toughnefs. 



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