^4 Th Ccmpkat Fwrfemat?. ' CHAP. IV. 



Accloy, HippoferHs. Sir, this Malady fo called by the French -^ is the 



fame we call prick't with a Nail in the Shoing, and it is as ea- 



(ily cured, if the Fenier be skilful, and that it be alfo taken in 



time. And thus we work, viz,. Firft, take out the fole, and 



cut the hoof round about tlTe place pricked, that no corruption 



>r be remaining behind, fill it up again with hurds fteeped in 



J I whites of Eggs ^ drefs him thus three dales together, then 



\s»" ' heal the fore up with fait made into fine powder mingled with 



J^ Vinegar, or elfe with Diers Galls, or with Myrtle, or Lentiles, 



% and anoint the outlide of the ^^-j/ with black Bgyptiacum. ^^^ 



'^'- Another. 



^ Take a little cotten or bumbaft, and fteep it in brown Su- 



I gar-Candy molten, and apply it with a hot Iron to the place.' 



And if the foot be bruifed with the lhoe,or that the female horn 

 be hurt or bruifed, then cleanfeand prepare the place firft, and 

 then apply unto it a quick or live Spider with a hot Iron, and 

 fotack on thelhoe, and let him not come into any wet till he 

 be fully cured, '^•^* - 



^'*^b ouj t>u \: .'j if {A Another.'^ 



V ^ ; J ; 



Take Sallet bil, Turpentine, and Rofih-pitch, all molten^ 

 together, put it very hot into the hole where beis prickedr- 

 and fo Hop the hole with Hurds. ^^^ "'•' 



SECT. 6. A. 



, \\'i\.it ti jq . 



Hippophilus. '^j\ 7 Wt KQcei\)ts have yoH for all inward Dif- 



hippoferus. The Spaniards have one Medicine with which they ^ 

 Cure all Difeales •, and albeit I fay they do cure all difeales,' 

 with this one Receipt ; yet my meaning is, that look whatfo-^- 

 ever the infirmity be, they adminifter none other thing but that 

 one, whether it cure or kill j and this they call a CatapUfm^ of 

 which they make no fmall account, which they give as Pills. 

 AilDifea- Take Wheat-Meal twelve pound, Annifeeds four ounces in 

 fesaCa- fine powder, Brimftone in powder three ounccs. Fenugreek in^- 

 taplafm. powder three, ounces ^ fem. Comin in powde«r three ounces, ^ 

 Honey two. pound, good Sallet Oil one pound cr/f/», of good 



Sack 



