\ Of Cures Chyrurgical, Lib. 11. 



Cher farriers ulcfiril; to waib the Sore v/ith Aie, wncrtui JNettle- 

 fceds have been ludaen, and then ftrew upon ii the Powder of Ver- 

 digreaic. 



!> Now to conclude, you muft ever obferve^ that before you ufe 

 any of thefe Medicines^ you do fnave away the Hair, that it be no 

 Impediment to the Salve ; alfo when you have dreft it once^ and fee 

 that there is no Asker raifed^ then you fliall diefs it with fome mollify- 

 ing or healing Saive, till the Asker come av/ay, and then drefs it with 

 your eating Salve again ; and thus do, until you behold tkat all the 

 dead Fie Hi be confumed, and that there is nothing but perfed: and 

 found Flefhj and then heal it up^ as in cafe of Wounds. Alfo Preci- 

 pitate^ fimpie of it felf, will eat away any dead Flelh. 



CHAP. CLIL For Knots or Joints, Htirdnefs ^ Cramps^ or 



any Inflammations. 



rx^Here do grow in Joints three forts of Swellings ; namely, an 

 X hot Swelling, an hard Swelling, and a foft Swelling ^ all which 

 you may eafily diilinguifh by your feeling; and they do proceed, ei- 

 ther from abundance of grofs Humours engendred by foul keeping^ or 

 NClfe by accident, as from fome Wound, Rufli or Strain. The Cure 

 whereof, according to the Opinion of moft ancient Farriers, is, To 

 beat the Pov^/der called Diapente, together with Oil. till it be like an 

 Ointment, and then apply it once a day to the Grief, and it will take 

 it away; efpecially if it be a Cramps or an Inflammation. 



Other Farriers ufe to incorporate with Oil, half an ounce of liquid 

 Storax. two ounces of Turpentine, five of Wax. and ten of Bird- 

 Lime;^ and apply that to the Grief, and it will eafe ic. Other Farri- 

 ers take Wine, and old Oil, and Tar, mingled and boiled together, 

 and therewith drefs the fore Place, and it will help it. 



f> Others of your old and later Farriers take half a pound of grcafe, 

 three fcruples of Muftard, and the like of Bay-Salt; mix thele with 

 Vinegar, and apply it to the Grief. Others ufe to take a Plaifter of 

 3-ip-Sj and the Roots of Fern and Rocket; or mingle them with Greafe 

 and Vinegar, and apply it to the Grief. Other Farriers ufe to take the 

 Unguentum Bafilicon ; which is made of Honey, Storax, Galbanum, 

 Bdellium, Black- Pepper, Bay-Berries, the Marrow of a Stagg, of 

 each a like quantity; twice as much of Armoniack, and of the Pow- 

 kler of Frankincenfe as much as of any of the other, and incorporate 

 -them with Sheeps-Suet, and apply it to the Grief, and it will help it. 



§> Other Farriers take dry Pitch, Pitch of Greece, of each one 

 Part; of Galbanum, and of Lime, of each four Parts; oi Bitumen 

 two Parts, of Wax three Parts ; melt them all together, and anoint 

 the place therev^ith very hot, and it will take away the Grief, and 

 peradventure alfo the Eye-fore. 

 ^ CHAP. 



