Lib. II. * Of Cures ChyrurgicaL 2qi 



Other Farriers ufe to boil a Moldy-warp in Salt-Water for three Days 

 together, or elfe with ftrong Lee, and ever as one Liquor confumeth, to 

 fupply it with another ^ then with this Decoflion being warm, anoint the 

 fhaved place, and it will bring white Hairs fuddenly. 



Other Farriers take the Gall of a Goat, and rub the ftiaved place there- 

 with, and it will bring white Hairs alio. 



Other Farriers take Sheep's Milk, and boil it, and in that wet a Linnen 

 Cloth, and being very hot, lay it to, renewing it until you may rub off the 

 Hair with your Finger ; this done, apply the Milk to it twice a Day luke- 

 warm, till the Hair do come again, which without all queftion wilibe 

 white. 



Other Farriers take the Roots of wild Cucumbers, and twice as much 

 Nitrum mingled with Oil and Honey 5 or elle add to your Cucumbers 

 Sal Nitrum beated, and Honey, and anoint the fhaven place therewith, 

 and it will bring white Hairs. 



Other Farriers ufe to take a piece of a Brick-bat, and with it gently to 

 rub and chafe the Place, till by the continuance thereof, you have rubbed 

 away both the Hair and the Skin, fo broad as you would have the Star, 

 and then after to anoint it with Honey, until the Hair come again : Or elf^ 

 to roaft a Colewart-ftalk like a warden, or an Egg, until it be ftone hard j 

 and then as they come hot out of the fire, to clap either of them to the 

 Horfe's forehead, and it will fcald oiF the Hair, then toanoint it with Honey 

 till the Hair come again. 



Now to conclude, and to fhew you the moft perfe£l and abfolute Ex- 

 periment, which I have ever found to be moft infallible, and it is thus : 

 You (hall take a very fine, fharp, long Bodkin, made for the fame pur- 

 pofe, and thruft it up betwixt the Skin and the Bone upwards, fo long as 

 you would have the Star; and in thrufting it up, you fhall hollow the 

 Skin from the Bone, the bignefs that you would have the Star ; this done 

 you (hall take a piece of Lead, made in the true (hape of your Bodkin* 

 and drawing out the Bodkin, thruft in the Lead into the fame holes 5 then 

 you (liall thruft the Bodkin crofs-wife the forehead underneath the Lead j 

 and then thrufting in fuch another piece of Lead, you fhall fee it in the 

 Horfe's Face to prefent this Figure ^ which being done, you (hall take a 

 very ftrong packthred, and putting it underneath all the four ends of the 

 Leads, and drawing it with all ftraitnefs, you (hall gather all the hollow 

 skin together on a purfe, folding the packthred oft and oft about, and ftill 

 llraiter and ftraiter, fo that you (hall fee it then to prefent unto you this 

 Figure : This done, you (hall let it reft at leaft the fpace of eight and forty 

 Hours, in which time the Skin will be, as it were, mortified : Then may 

 you unloofe the packthred, and draw forth the leaden pins, and with 

 your ^land clofe the hollow Skin to the Forehead hard again : And (hortly 



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