Lui. 11. Of Curea Chyrurgical. ^oi 



give not tiie to any bone that is broken, or out ot Joint, for fear of breed- 

 ing a general weaknefs in the whole Member. Thirdly, never to give the 

 fire fo deep, or fuffer your hand to be fo heavy, that you may mis-fliape 

 or deform the Horfe, either by unnecefTary Figures, or uncomely Scars. 

 Fourthly, not to be too rafh or hafty in giving fire, as if every Cure was 

 to be wrought by that Praftice only (as 1 know fome very well reputed 

 Farriers hold Opinion) but only to attempt all other good Means before j 

 and when all hopes elfe is defperate, then to make the fire your lalt refuge 

 as extremity that muft prevail, when all other Prafticesdo perifh. 



Laftly, I would not have you, like the foolifh Farriers, which know 

 nothing, utterly to contemn or negle£l it, as if it were ufelefs; but with 

 all Moderation, and judicious Difcretion, to apply it in fit time and place, 

 lb the poor Horfe may gain Eale, your felf good Reputation, and the 

 Owner Profit j which is moil certain, as long as you are governed by 

 Wildom. 



Chap. CLXXVII. Of Cauterize by Medkirte^ which is Cauterize Potential 



TH E Potential Cauterize, or fearing of the Fleih by Medicine, is (as 

 I faid before) when the Medicines are either Corrofive, Puttefaftive, 

 or Cauftickv Corrofive, as when they do Corrode, rot, gnaw, and fret the 

 Flefh j Putrefactive, when they do corrupt the Complexion of the Mem- 

 ber, and do induce a main Scar like dead Fle(h, caufiiig infinite Pain, in 

 llich fort, that they are often accompanied with Fevers and Mortality, and 

 therefore are not to be Adminiftred but to ftrong Bodies, and in 'very 

 ftrong Difeafes ^ and Cauftick, which is as much as to fay burning, when 

 the Operation is fo ftrong, that it inclineih, and cometh neareft to the 

 nature of fire, and lb burneth and confumeth whatfoever it toucheth. 



Now thefe Potential Cauterizes do exceed and excel one another by certain 

 degrees, as thus: The Corrofivesare weaker than the Putrefaftives, and the 

 Putrefaftives are weaker than the Caufticks^ the Corrofives work upon 

 the upper part in the foft Flelh, the Putrefy fVives in the depth of the hard 

 Flefh, and the Caufticks have power to break Skin found or unfound, both 

 in hard and foft Flefh, and that very deeply alfo. 



Now of Corrofives fome be fimple, and fbme be compound : The 

 fimple Corrofives are Roch Alom, burnt, or unburnr, the Spunge of the 

 Sea fbmewhat burnt, Lime, red Coral, and the powder of Mercury, the 

 fhavings of an Ox or Harts- horn Precipitate Verdigreafe, and fuch like. 

 The compound Corrofives are, black Soap and Lime, Unguentum Apo- 

 ftolorum, and Unguentum Egyptiacum, and Unguentum Caraceum, and 

 many fuch like : And thefe are to be applied unto. Sores, Ulcers, or Exr 

 cretions, after they are corroded. 



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