Lib. II. Of Cures Chyrurgtccd, ia\ 



C H A P. C5flIX. An appro'ved and certain Cure for the running 



and rotten Frujh, 



AFter the Foot is cleanfed^ take a quart of old Urine, and boil it 

 with a quarter of a pound of Allom beaten to Powder, and keep 

 it in a clofe VelTelby it felf ; then take a good handful or two of green 

 Nettles ftrong and keen, and (pread them on fome Plate or other VefTel^ 

 and dry them either before the fire, or in an Oven after houfhold-bread 

 is drawn, then crulh and bruife them into a very fine Powder, then 

 look what quantity of Powder there is, and take the like quantity ot 

 Pepper beaten to as fine Powder, and mix them both very well toge- 

 ther, then keep this Powder in a clofe Gally-pot, or Bladder. 



Now when you have occafion to ufe it, firft wa(h the fore place 

 ^ith the Urine and Allom made very warm, and the Sores throughly 

 fcoured, after dry them well by drawing through them a fine Rag 

 of Lawn, Carabrick, or fine old Linen, and ftrow or pounce the 

 Powder upon them, fo much as may cover all the fores, and thus do 

 ever after Travel, as once a Day in the Time of reft. 



CHAP. CXX. Of the Evil Hoofs. 



HOrfes partly through a natural Inclination, partly through the 

 Stonincfs of the Soil wherein they are bred, and partly through 

 Mifchance or ill-government, will have ill-favoured and naughty 

 Hoofs, as cither wrinkled or crumpled, or elfe moulded awry, or fuch 

 like^ all which need no Signs, becaufe of the apparent Sight thereof: 

 Then to amend them, the beft Cure is, with a fine Rape File to fmooth 

 the wrinkles away, and to anoint the Cronet of the Hoof with a fat 

 fward of Bacon rubbed in Soot, then let the Horfe ftand for at leaft a 

 Fortnight upon his own Dung, whereon you fhall caft good ftore of 

 Water, only remove away the Dung every Night; and then prefent- 

 ly after the change of the Moon, (liooe the Horfe with ftrong ftiooes, 

 keeping the foal of the foot by paring, fo hollow as you can pofltble, 

 and it will fliape his Hoof to your pleafure. 



CHAP. CXXL Of Brittle Hoofi. 



IF a Horfe either through the heat of his own Nature, or in that 

 he hath been either heated on his Foot by labour, or foundred, 

 and evil cured, ftiall happen to have his Hoofs fo brittle and fliort, 

 that they will hardly bear a Shooe, the Signs whereof are, the Hoof 

 will be white and crumbling ; then the beft Cure, according to the 

 Opinion of the beft Farriers, is. To take Ox-dung and Vinegar, and 

 mixing them very well together, warm them on the fire, and fo bind it 

 both under and above round about the Horfe's foot, and then lace on 



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