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with a Quill, or with fome other inftrument of Lead^ which maybe 

 bow'd every vv^y^ for unlefs you find the bottom of it, it will be 

 very hard to cure; f?nd having found the bottom,, if jt be in luch a 

 place 'AS you may boldly cur and make the way open with a Lancec 

 or Razor, then make a flitrightagainft the botcom. To wide^ that you 

 may thruft.in your Finger to feel whether there be any Bone, or clfe 

 Gfidle periOied, or fpongy^ or IooreFlefh_, which mufi be gotten out; 

 und-then tent it with a Tent of Fiax dipped in this Ointment: Take 

 of Myrrh^ of Aloes^ and of Sarocolhi^ of each one ounce, of good 

 Honey fix ounces^ and of Verdigreafe two ounces ; and melt all thefe 

 on a gentle Fire^ and make them into a Salve, then being lukewarm, 

 drefs the 1 ent there wirh, and boliier the Tent with a Bolfter of Flax, 

 and if it be in fuch a Place as the Tent cannot conveniently be kept in 

 wich a band, then fallen on each fide the hole two ends of a Shooe- 

 maker's Thred right over the Bolfter, to keep in the Tent, which ends 

 may hang tliere, as two Laces to tie and untie at your Plcafure,, re- 

 newing the Tent every Day once, until the Sore leave mattering, and 

 then make the Tent everj' Day leffer and lefTer, until it be whole : 

 ioryou fliallunderftand, that this Salve doth purge this FifFula of Putre- 

 fa<5i:ion, incarnateth and bretdeth Flefh, conglutinaceth and cateth 

 :iwav all naughty Flefh. Now when you have done as aforefaid, then 

 you ftall clofe it up by fprinkling thereon a little unllackt Lime ; but 

 if the Fiftula be in fuch a place- as you can neither cut againft the 

 bottom nor tie the fame, then there is no Remedy, but every time you 

 drefs it, to pour into it either through fome Quill, or by Ibme fmall 

 Squirt or Syringe fome ftrong white Copperas- water, or lome Allom- 

 water, fo that it may go dovv'n to the bottom, and dry up the hlthy 

 Mattery and this you may do twice a day at leaft until it be whole. 

 Now there be of our later Farriers, which ufe this Cure, after they 

 have fearched the Fiftula to thebottom. To take a pottle of White-Wine 

 Vinegar, of Camphirehalf an ounce, of Mercury precipitate halt an 

 ^^uncQ, of green Treacle three ounces, of Red-Sage an handful, of 

 yarrow and Rib- wort of each an h:Tndful, of Honey half ;y pint, of 

 l;aars-greafe half a pint, boil all thefe together till a quart be confumed, 

 and with this you fhall wafh and cleanfe the Wound. TThen to heal 

 up the fame, you fliall take Oil of Rofes, Virgins- Wax and Rozen,_ 

 of each, a like quantity, of Turpentine five ounces, of the Gum of 

 Ivy and Deers-fuet as much, boil thefe together unto a Salve, and 

 then drefs the Sore therewith until it be whole ; obferving ever, both 

 in this Cure, and all the reft, that as foon as you have put in your Tent 

 to clap aPlaiftcr over it of Pitch, Rozen, Maftick, Turpentine and 

 Hogs-greafe molten together, which will both comfont the/Wound by 

 .takinp-'away evilHumoiirs, and alfo keep in the Tent from falling out. 

 '^ Now 



