IJ5 TheCcffJpleat Hoyfe-m^f/, CHAP. V. 



it for your ufe. And when you would ufe it, warm thereof 

 upon a chafing difli and coals, and anoint your Horfe there- 

 with upon the forance, and that but once, and it will fuffice. 

 But you mull let him blood the day before you anoint him in 

 the nevk^vein. And at the end of eight days, take a quantity 

 of cold Lee, and thcee ounces of black Sope, and wafh the fo- 

 rance therewith.' The quantity of oyntment will ferve but 

 only for two Horfes. Of this Receipt 1 ne\^er hadoccalion to 

 "make trial \ but it v;as taught me by a famous A^arflml of 

 France, who commended it unto me for an extraordinary good 

 Receipt ; and truly it feems to me fo to be. 



C HA P. VI. 



SECT. I. C. 



Hippoph. "T \J Hat is good to he applied to ^ Horfe, that hath 

 VV cajl hi mfe If in his H^herY 

 Hippoferm. This commonly cometh to a Horfe which being 



tied down to the Manger, his ear or 1 otd itching, with his 

 hinder /W Icratcheth the place that itcheth, fo as when he. 

 taketh away his Foot^ihQ Halter catcheth into the Pafiern Joym \ 

 which he feeling, falleth to ftriving, whereby he caftcth hira- 

 felf down,and by means of the hardnefs of the Cord,he isgaul- 

 ed even to the very bone, and many times if he be not oppor- 

 tunely refcued, the Halter doth Itrangle him, and he is found. 

 ftark dead. But if the Horfe do efcape with life, he will be ne- 

 verthelefs terrible gauled, which will foon rankle and fwell, 

 uiiiefs cure be prefently adminiftred. The iign whereby to ' 

 know it, is apparent enough. I will give you only two Re- 

 ceipts for this forance, whereof the firrt Qiall be this, viz.. 

 Ciftina Take the leaf of the herb called Saubfucus, ftamp it and 

 Halrer. ftrain it, and take only the juyce thereof, and apply the faid 

 juyce to the forance by waffling it therewith, atter take a lin- 

 nen cloath, v/hite and clean, and make it into three or four 

 folds, fteeping the cloath in the faid juyce, and bind it on th*. 

 place giieved,but ill Winter when the faid leaf is not to be had, 



you.. 



