100 TUCcf/!pkat Eorfe-f7tu7?, CM A P. IV. 



with Coperas water, declared /» Lib. 2. Chap. 10. ^eli,'^. zvid. 

 after anoint it with the green Ointment mentionec! in ckpite & 

 Se^. ibid, and fo in fliort time it will be whole and found a- 

 gain) *^^. This is a very hard Cure for yonr ordinary Coun- 

 try 5w^^j to take in hand to perform, if they be not well ac- 

 quainted with the nature of this Malady. Mailer Blmdhi'e 

 and Mafter Markham^ have both this manner of Cure, only 

 they differ from me in the healing Salve. 



SECT. 12. J. 



Hippoph. "yii^ J Hat Cm-e have you for the Av'iYCs} 



V V fJippoferHs. This term v^x^/W we have alio 

 gotten from the French^ which our Fcmers do call the Fives. 

 1 1 is a Difeafe which grows under the Ears^ 2i'[\<\ fecundtimvnlgHs^ 

 Ayives. it is called the Fives or Froes^ from the f^rxit creepeth down 

 towards the Throaty which when they begin to e.flame will 

 fwell, and not only pain the Horfe very much,; but alfo prove 

 mortal, by flopping his I'F/W they will kill hirh ottright, if it 

 be not in time cured ^ and I my felf have feen and known Hvrfes 

 dye of this malady. It proceedeth moll commonly of Rank- 

 nefs of Blood •, in the Cure, care raufl be taken that you do not 

 touch the Grains or Kernels with your fingers. Xhe j^vives 

 or Fives are certain fiat Kernels, much like B.unchesof Graps^^ 

 which grow in a cixiflet, clofeknotted together in the pl?xe J 

 the mofl certain cure is to cut the Skin longellways^ and to 

 lay the Kernels or Grains open, and then with an Inftrument 

 made like to apairof Plyers to pinch forth the Grains, their 

 to apply unto the place either a Linnen Cloath, or a few hurds 

 lleeped well in whites of Eggs well beaten, and fo Bound on, 

 and renewing it daily, it will cure it ^ but you mufl heal up' 

 t\\Qskin with the Green Ointment before fyok-zn o( in tap. or 

 ^eii'. ibid. ■^,^*. But the cofnmon cure is to draw down the fore 

 with a. hot Iron jafl in the midft, fo far as the fwelling goeth, 

 and then under the root of the Ear^ draw two other flrosks of 

 the falhionofan Arrows head, then open the jb», and with a 

 fmair pairs of Piyers, pull oat the Kernels, and fo cut them 

 off, ^buthaveacareof the Z^^^jV that done, fi'll'the place with 

 Bay-fait made into fine powder,and after heal up the fore witj ^ 



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