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lore you mutt draw it ftraicer, but if no blood ioliow, then it is well 

 bound : This done, you (hall take a red hot burning Iron, made 

 round "after this fafhion, of the full compafs of the Flefh of the 

 Horfe's TaiL that the Bone of the Tail may go thro' the hole, and 

 with it you (hall fear the Flefh till you have mortified it-, and in 

 the fearing you (hall plainly fee the ends of the Veins itart out 

 like pap heads ^ but you fhall ffill continue fearing them, until you fee 

 all to be molt fmooth, plain, and hard, fo that the blood cannot break 

 thro' the burning: Then may you boldly unloofe the Cord, and after two 

 or three Days, that you perceive the Sore begin to rot, you fhall not 

 iTiifs to anoint it with frefh Butter, or elfe with Hogs-greafe and Turpen- 

 tine, until it be whole. 



CHAP. CLXXXl. To make a white Star in avy part of a Horfe. 



IF you will at any time make a white Star, either in your Horfe's fore- 

 head, or in any other part of his Body, you fhall according to the 

 Opinion of the moft ancient Fariers, Take a Tile ftore, and at er you 

 have bijrned it, beat it into fine Powder : HJ^ Then take Lilly Rcots^ 

 Dafie Roots, White brier Roots, of each a like quantity, ard having dried 

 them, beat them alfb into fine Powder, and mix them with the firfl" : 

 Then with a Razor fhave that part of your Korfe where you would have 

 your Star j and then with this Powder rub it fo vehemently, that you 

 Icarce leave any skin on ,: then take a good quantity of Honey-iuckle 

 Flowers, and a like quantity of Honey, and the Water wherein a Mole 

 hath been fodden, and then diftil them into a Water, and with that Wa- 

 ter wafh the Sore place for the fpace of three Days together, and ke&p 

 the Wind from it, and you fliall prefently fee the white Hairs to grow 5 

 for this Receipt hath been often very well approved. 



There be other Farriers, which take a Crab, and roaft it, and being fiery- 

 hot, bind it to that part which you would have white, and it will fcald 

 away the old Hair, and the next Hair that groweth will be white. Other 

 Farriers ufe, after they have fhaved the place to take the ji.ice of .fharp 

 Onions, or Leeks, and to bathe the place very much therewith : Then 

 take Barley-Bread, as fire hot as it cometh from the Oven, and clap it to 

 the fhaved place, fulFering it to lie fo till it be cold ^ and then after anoint 

 it with Honey, and the white Hair will come. Other Farriers ufe to a- 

 noint the fhaven place with the Greafe of a Moldy- warp fodden, and that 

 will bring the white Hairs. Other Farriers ufe after they have fhaved it, 

 to rub the place well with Salt, and then twice every Day for a fortnight, 

 to wafh it with the broth wherein a Mpldy-warp and feme Swine's greafe 

 hath been fodden. 



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