Lib. II. Of Cures Chyrurgical, 2p7 



good (tore of fweet ftraw^ then, when the Horfe is thus calt, you (hall 

 look for the Vein which you intend to take up > and if it be either ^o 

 Imall, or lie fo deep, that you can hardly perceive it, then you fhall, with 

 warm water, rub, chafe, and bathe ail that part where the Vein iieth; 

 then take a narrow filk Garter, and a handful or two above the Vein, (if 

 ic be of any of the Horfe's Legs) garter the Member very ftrait : But if 

 it be a Vein to be taken upon the Body or B'-eaft, then with a good Sur- 

 lingle, either clofe behind the hinder point of the Soulder, or within a 

 handful of the place where you mean to take up the Vein, gird him very 

 itrait, and prefently you fliall fee the Vein to arife^ then mark that part 

 of the Skin which covereth the Vein, and with your Finger and your 

 Thumb, pull it fomewhat afide from the Vein, and then, with a very 

 fine Incifion-Knife, flit the Skin clean thro', without touching the Vein, 

 and in any wife cur no deeper than thro' the Skin, and thit long-wife 

 too, in fuch fort as the Vein goeth, yet not above an Inch at the moft in 

 length-, that done, remove your Finger and your Thumb, and the Skin 

 will return again into its place, right over the Vein, as it was before, 

 infomuch that but opening the orifice or ilit, you fhall fee the Vein lie 

 blue and bare before your Eyes^ then take a fine fmooth Cronet, made 

 either of the Browantler of a Stag, or of an old Buck, and thruft it 

 underneath the Vein, and lift it up a pretty diftance (that is to fay, half 

 the thicknels of the Croner; above the Skin ; that done, you fhall then 

 loofe either the Garter or Surfingle, for they are but only helps for you 

 to find out the Vein \ and when the Vein doth appear, have a fpecial care 

 that you touch not the Sinews. 



Now when you have thus taken your Vein upon your Cronet, you 

 fhall then either put a red filk Thread, dipp'd in Oil of Butter, or elfe a 

 fmall Shooe-maker's Thread underneath the Vein alfo, fomewhat higher 

 than the Cronet, which Silk or Thread muft ferve to knit the Vein when 

 time requires \ then the Cronet ftanding (till as before, with your 

 Knife flit the top of the Vein long-wife, the length of a Barley-corn, 

 that it may bleed ^ then flopping the nether part of your Vein with 

 the Silk, or the Thtead, fuflFer it to bleed from above ^ then with your 

 Silk or Thread removed above, knit it fait with a fure knot, above the 

 flit, fuffering it only to bleed from beneath ; and having bled there 

 alfo fufficiently, then knit up the Vein beneath the flit with a fure knot, 

 then fill the hole of the Vein with Salt, and heal up the Wound of the 

 Skin with Turpentine and Hog's- greafe molten together, or elfe with 

 a little frefh Butter laid on with a little Flax, or foft Tov^, is 

 fufficient. 



Now the Virtue which redounds from this taking up of Veins : 

 Firft, it is very necefTary, and doth eafe all Griefs, ftrains and ftifFnefs 



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