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cafes of this nature j wherein I do advife all men that are not Cautery 

 very perfedin giving the fire, that they do not pradife upon *-^'''^' 

 Horfes of price, but firil upon Jades, and low- prized Horfes, 

 to the end they may the better come to know how to carry 

 their hand, and to underftand themfelves in this Art the bet- 

 ter : as when they are to iife the lighter, and when the hea- 

 vier hand ^ as alfo that they do make their circles round, and 

 their lines ftreight and even, and not crooked or waving. For 

 this adualfire is a thing molt neceflary for them that do truly 

 know and underftand the true ufe and virtue thereof, and 

 therefore it ought to be very carefully, judicioufly and mode- 

 rately applyed, and never but upon good and very confiderate 

 grounds i which in fo doing, you fhall find it to be a moft fo- 

 vereign remedy to hinder and ftay all manner of corruption 

 whereunto any mtmber may be inclined) provided that m the 

 handling of your Inftrument,you touch not Mnfcles^Arteries,Si' 

 mv9s ^Ligament s^Chords^ov the like \ for fo you may utterly lame 

 where youwould fetupright,and deftroy where you would cure, 

 excepting only in cafes needful. For by applying this atUal fircy 

 you (hall joyn and conglutinate parts and members fevered, dry 

 upfuperfluous moifture, znd, {ink members fwelled-- you (hall be- 

 fides bring forth all evil and putrefadious matter congealed 

 and gathered into Knots, as Wens, Biles, Puftils, Exulcera- 

 tions, and the like : you fhall alfo alFwage old griefs, and make 

 perfed all fuch parts of the Wy as be any way corrupted : nei- 

 ther Ihall you need fear the increafe of any evil humoursj by 

 reaibn that the skjn being fevered by means of the hot Iron, it 

 doth ripen and digeffc all manner of putrefadion and matrative 

 ftufF, whereby it venteth and pafTeth away much more eafily, 

 healing and qualifying all grief and pain, cauling the member 

 which before was fubjed to feflring and to gangrene, become 

 the founder, and by much the ftronger j fo as nothing of dif- 

 advantage will be remaining, but thzfcar only where the Iron 

 pafled, and the worft that can be made thereof, will be but a 

 little eye-fore. But then you mult have a very great regard unto 

 your inftruments that they be made according to the nature 

 and quality of the place and member which is to be feared j for 

 one fafhion will notferve in all caufes : for as the places which 



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