36 TlxCcmpkat I'lorfi.ffMV, CtlAP. V, 



way offend or trouble the foot, renewing your medicine every 

 day once till he be whole ^^i^"^'- 



This Receipt isalfb moft fovereign for a Horle that is hccf- 

 hoHfld : and as' the new /jo^/ begin neth to come, it behooveth 

 yon carefully to obferve where it groweth harder or thickerin 

 one place more than another, or crumbleth, or goeth out of 

 order or fafliion any where about th^ hoof ; which when you 

 lliall perceive, file the place with yonr Rape, and fo keep the 

 hoof \Ti good fafhion, by which means there will come a very 

 perfcd /jo^y again : which being put him out to grafs into fome 

 moifl: Failure or Mcadovv', for that is the only way to caufe 

 the hoof to become tough. 



Hippophilus. What is the reafon that in all your medicines in 

 which yoii nfeTHrfentirie^ yon fm that in hifi) and not when yon pit 

 , in your other ingredients t 



Hippofems. Sir, I Ihall give you in a word a fiifEcient reafon 

 for this demand -^ to wit, if the ingredients which I do put in- 

 to any medicine be to be molten upon the fire^ -asGnmSvPitch, 

 Tar, Rofin, and the like •■, if I Ihould put in ray Turpentine 

 together at once with the Relidue before it could be fuliicient- 

 ly molten or boiled, the Turpentine (being a drug fo fubtile) 

 would confume it felf into vapoHr, and by that means leave the 

 medicine iinperfed, and that is the caufe vvhy I do put in my 

 Turpentine evermore a little before I take it from the lire. 



SECT. 4. C. 



Hippoph. T A^ what caufes do you Cauterize, and what be its 



^ virtues ? 



Hipfofertts. Cauteriz^ation or giving of fire is of two natures, 

 VIZ.. j^liual-f and Potential: your Cautery ^^nal is made by hot 

 burning inftruments, with which you fear and burn thofe 

 places which be requilite for the perfeding of the Cure you 

 have in hand, which cannot be peradventure otherwife well 

 cured, but by giving of the fire: as in cafeof great impoltuma- 

 tion, ftanching of ^/Wih wounds, or in fearing of w/^j-, /- 

 fjews^ or the like j or elfe in cafe of difmembring, if other 

 means be not at hand, whereby to ftay the flux of blood with- 

 out danger of bleeding to death, and fo likewife in very many 



cafes 



