BOOK. II. and Expert Ferrkr, l^^ 



woollen cloath, and when you have fufEcicntly cleanled him, 

 let him be wiped, rubbed, and made dry, as before you have 

 done his Head ^ and when he is throughly dry, let him be led 

 into the Stable and fo cloathed up with a clean thin fofc 

 cloath,and fliod up at your pleafure. And by this kind of Pftr^- 

 ing^ trimming, and clear.fing of a Horfe^ I have in three or four 

 hours fpace fo altred a Horfe^ as that his owner hath not on the- 

 fudden kn^wn him. 



SECT. 7. C 



lippoph. 1 Havehmven Hovft'?, troubled with fnndry forts of fottt 

 J or fore heels, aH which carry the »<iwro/ Scratche3 



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"arry the name of 

 in general i fame whereof have Clifts crofs, and ever-thwart^ fonts 

 Clifts with Cracks, and fame long Clifts, d*c. Vf hat do yon fay to 

 thefe Maladies ? 



Hippoferui. I fay Sir, that every of thefe forts are very foul 

 Sorances, yet foon cured, if the Ferrier be fo well skilled a^to 

 take up the Teins, before he apply his Medicines and remedies. 

 The Maladies do come by Surfets taken by over heats, by 

 wafhing his Horfe when he comethhome hot, by naughty meat, 

 or by corrupt blood, the Peccant humours falling downwards and 

 fetling in thofe parts where the forances are, whereby they 

 prove moft troublefome to the creatHre^ and no lefs noifbme 

 to the beholders .- for the heels be very raw, and do run with Clifo and 

 loathfome water and matter which doth ftink very offenfively. Cracks in- 

 The (ignes need no defcription. The Cure is, fir'ft to take up^^^ ^^^^' 

 the Thigh veins: whereby to flop and hinder the falling down 

 of thefe bad humeurs which do feed them j then clip or fhave 

 away the hair clofe from about the fores, then walh the places 

 with broken Beer and Butter warm, and dry them again : 

 which done, apply this Plafter to the place grieved. 



Take Sheeps fewct, or Deers fewet, which is much better, 

 and being molten upon the fire, let it cool till you may hold 

 your finger therein ^ then put to it fo much Rie-bran, or for 

 want thereof Wheat -branr as will bring it to a falve, lay it to 

 the place plaiiter-wife upon Hurds or Tow, and bind a dean 

 Unnen cloath over the plaifter to keep it on, and folet it re- 

 main four or five days without medling with it, by which time 



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