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bind nothing about it, then take it away with a fharp hot Jronj cut- 

 ting it round about, and fo deep as you leave none of the Root behind 

 and then dry it up with the Powder of Verdigreafe : but if it grow in 

 fuch a finewy ph-icc as it cannot be conveniently cut away wirh a hot 

 Iron, then it is good to eat out the Core with tho Powder of Rofalgar, 

 or Mercury, and then to (top the hole with Flax, dipt in the white of 

 an Egg, for a day or two ; and laltly, to dry it up with the Powder 

 of unilackt Lime, and Honey, as is before taught. Other Farriers, 

 inftead of tying the Wart with a Thrcd, do tye it with fomc Horfe^ 

 hair ; and that is a great deal the better, and it will rot it off fooner 

 and fafter. 



CHAP, CXXXV. Of the Cords. 



TH E Cords is a certain String which cometh from the Shackle- vein 

 to the Griftle in the Nofe, and between the Lip, the Length of 

 an Almond i or there be two Strings like Threds, which lye above the 

 Knee, betwixt the Knee and the Body, and go like a fmaJI Cord 

 through the Body to the Noftrils, making a Horfe to ftumble much, 

 and fometimes to fall alfo^; and it is a Difeafe very much incident to 

 many young Horfes, The Signs are, an apparent ftiff going, and 

 much {tumbling, without any outward or vifible Sorance ,• the Cure 

 is, according to the Opinion of our ancient Farriers, To take the 

 €nd of a crooked Hart's horn that is fliarp, put it under the Cords, 

 and twine it ten or twelve times about, till the Horfe be conflrained 

 to lift up his Foot ; then cut the Cord afunder, and put a little Salt in- 

 to the ilFue, or cut it firlt at the Knee, then at the end of his Nofe, 

 and fo draw it upward a fpan length, and cut that off. Other Farriers 

 let the Horfe Blood in the Vein that defcendeth in the infide of the 

 Leg, bycheBreaft, and take away at leaft a Pottle of Blood, and after 

 feven Days wafh him with Beef-broth, and it will heal him. 



Other Farriers take Muftard, Aquavita:, and Sailer-Oil, and boil 

 them on the Coals, and make a Plaiftcr, and bind to a place that is 

 grieved, and it will heal him. 



Others take the Grounds of Ale,and being made warm, bathe his Legs 

 therewith, and then rope them up with wet Hay-ropes^ and it will 

 make the Horfe perfectly found. 



CHAP. CXXXVL Of the String-halt. 



THE String-halt, of fome called the Mary-hinchcho, is a fudden 

 twitching up of the Horfe's hinder Legs, as if he did tread up- 

 on Needles, and were not able to endure his Feet upon the Grour 1 ; 

 The Signs whereof be an apparent ill-favoured manner of halting mofl 

 vifible to the Eve ^ and the Cure is. To take up the middle- Vein'^above 

 the Thigh, and underneath the fame; then under the f^id Vein there 

 lieth a firing, which ftring muft be cut away ; and then anoint him 

 with Butter and Salt, and he will both do well, and kO well. 



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