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Take Cantharides two ouzces, Maflick four pennyworth, Accaint 

 Venice Turpentine two pennyworths Euforbium four drams, |'PP<^'"°^ 

 Black Rofin lix ounces, Aqua-fortis two drams : beat the Can- ^^^^ ^- ^ 

 tharides and Euforbium into fine powder : then firll melt the 

 Maftick and Black Rofin, then put in your Turpentine,which 

 fo foon as it is moltenjput in your Cantharides and Euforbium, 

 and let all boil together, keeping them ftirri'ug, and have a 

 fecial care it boil not over :. aiid when you have taken it from' 

 the Fire, put in your Aqua- fortis, and fo fcir them well toge-^ 

 ther, and put it into a glafs or gaily pot, and fo keep it for 

 your ufe. And when you have occafidn to ufe the fame, firil 



. wafh and Bathe the grieved place well, then with your Splatter 

 fpread it upon the place being made warm, and clap Uox upon 

 it of the fame colour, and give him reft, and he will do well. '■ 

 But he mult have time, and alter a week that he hath been thus 

 charged, let him be put forth to graft if it be not in Winter, 

 or the Winter or cold weather approaching. ^^'^. 



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Take the whites of two new layed.Eggs, and the powder of^ 

 Bole-Armoniack, and the bell and flrongeft white Wine Vine-'" 

 gar, incorporate thefe very well together with the powder of 



. Sanguis Draconis, and having fhaven away the hair as aforefaid, 

 fpread it good and thick upon the grieved place, adding ftill 

 more every 3 days,for 1 5 days together jand then pLin him forth 

 to grafs,and let him run a whole March, 'and after fo long as you 

 Ihall think to be fuflicient^and he will be found again. ^^*. This 

 1 have alfo made tryal of, and I have found it to be right good.. 

 A French Mar{hal taught me a medicine for an Attaint or Ovcr- 

 reachy whereof I did never make ufe •■, howbeit he protefled 

 unto me he thought it one of the belt cures that he could ever 

 know^ j and I my felffavv him drefs a Horfe therewith, but 

 how the Horfe became cured, I had not time to know, by rca- 



/on I departed from Orleans before the Cure was performed. 

 And the cure was tliis. Take one or two handfuls of Saxafrage^ 

 and all the Sewet of a Loin of Mutton, and a pint of vs/hite. 

 Wine-, chop the Herb, and mince the Sewet very finall, and 

 fo boil all thefe together, which being thus w-ell boiled, take a.' 

 fufhcient quantity of Horfe-dnn^^ newly made by a Horfe that 

 goeth to gr-afs, and putting it to the other Ingredients, work 



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