Of Cures Cbymrgical, Lib. II. 



Strength to the Sinews. You Ihall by no means remove this Plainer fo 

 long as it will Hick on. 



This Plaider is wonderful foveraign, and of a fingular uCc ; for the 

 Horfe that is continually kept therewith^ I mean, that hath it applied 

 to his Limbs, ever when he cometh from Travel, he (hall never be 

 troubled with fweil*d Legs, nor yet ever put out Wind-Gall. 



8^ Now if you will neither go to this Coll, nor endure this Trouble, 

 yet would have your Horfe cured of his Infirmity, then know, there 

 is not any thing better, or more approved, than continually both be- 

 fore and after Travel, and in the Houfe many times in the Day, to 

 lave and wafh your Horfe's Legs, or other fwell'd Parts, with the 

 coldeft and cleareft Fountain- Water that you can get, and fometimes 

 let the Horfe ftand in fome cold running Stream the fpace of a quarter 

 of an hour or more, up to the Knees and Cambrels, but in any cafe 

 no farther 



This Medicine, how poor foever it look, is of much Vertue, and 

 tho* I write of cold Water, yet is the Operation hot and fiery ; only 

 this you muft take to your Remembrance, that this Application apper- 

 tains not to Impofthumations, but unto Strains, Swellings, and Brui- 

 fes, which are without Anguilh. 



CHAP. CXXX. Of the tarcy, or Fajhkm. 



TH E Farcy (of our Ignorant Smiths called the Fafhions) is of all 

 outward Sorances the vileft, the mod poifonous, infedious, 

 and the moft dangerous, (being any whit negleded) or otherwife the 

 moft eafie, and with the leaft cod or trouble to be helpexl. It is a kind 

 of creeping Ulcer, growing in Knots, ever following . amongft fome 

 one Vein or other,' and fometimes amongft divers or fundry Veins, ac* 

 cording to the Strength of the Infections. It proceedeth fometimes 

 from corrupt Blood ingendred in the Body, fometimes from outward 

 Wounds or Hurts receiv'd by cankerous or poifonous Inftruments, as 

 rufty Spurs, rufty Forks, biting of Dogs or Horfes, biting of Ticks, 

 Hog Lice, or fuch like ; fometimes by the rubbing of Swine againft 

 the Legs of the Horfe^ or by lying in the Litter where Swine has lain, 

 or by interfering or hewing one Leg upon another ; but generally it 

 proceedeth from an evil habit of the Body, being furfeited by diforder- 

 ly and unruly Travel, whereby the Blood being heated, the Greafe 

 melted, and iudden cold taken, there groweth fuch Oblirudions in the 

 Blood, and fuch Putrefaaion in the Body, that can in no way evacu- 

 ate or void, but by thefe fmall Knots, Puftules, or Ulcers, which are 

 fo infeaious, that as many Horfes as do gnawr or gnap upon the Horfe 

 infeded, will within one Month have the fame Difeafe, or if the Horfe 

 infeaed do bite any other, he will-infea himalfo; and this Infeaion 



without 



