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Take th-c decodion of Mallows one quart, Sallct Oil halfaCoftive- 

 pint, or frefh Butter half a pound , Benedi^a Uxativa , one ^^^^- ^'" 

 ounce, gi\re him this blood warm clyfter-wife, and then clap jj*'^[[,^j 

 hhtail to his tnel-y and ib caufe him to keep it half an hour at 

 leaft, being walked up and down, then fet him up warm, and 

 it will work, whereby he will empty himfelf: andindtie time 

 give him a fweet Mafli, and after Hay, and fo keep him to ma- 

 flics or white water two or three days \ but withal fail not to 

 rake hirn before you adminifter your Clyfter. ^^"^ This is a 

 moll excellent Receipt which you Ihall find in lib. i. cap. 6. 

 Seii. 7. Cly^er i. C. *^"^ There be many other good Snppo/ito- 

 ries and clyfttrs^ which I have already and will hereafter let 

 you down, which be very fovereign for this malady. 



SECT. 18. C. 



Hippoph. T i\ J Hat difeafe is tha* we call the Crowne-fcab ? 

 V V HippoferHs. This forance is a fcab or cruft 

 which growetb upon the coronet or top of the W/, nextunto 

 the hair j it is a filthy ftinking and cancerous difeafe, and not 

 only troublefome, bat painful to the beafl: , and it cometh 

 commonly in the winter, whiift the Horfe is in the Stable, 

 like as doth the Scratches-, and it is ingendred firft by reafon 

 the Horfe from a Colt^ till he came to be handled, was for the 

 moll part kept in moift, wet, and cold grounds j for no Hor- 

 iesare inclinable unto thisdifeaie, but thofe that are bred up 

 in fiich like grounds, The ligns to know this malady is, that 

 the h^ir will Hare about the coronet^ tind become thin and brifly. 

 The way to cure the fame is, 



Firltto wafh and bathe the place well fo far as the Scab orcrown 

 Sorance goeth, which is commonly round about the coronet ^ then fcab. 

 fhave or clip away the /?4irclofe, then, 



* Take Turpentine, tried Hogs greafe, and Honey, of each 

 like much, a little of the powder of Bolearmoniak, the yolks 

 of two Eggs, withas much wheat flower as wiil thicken it by 

 'working it to a falve, and apply this plailer-wife, with alin- 

 ^nen cloth to the forance, renewing it every day once till it 

 be whole : but let him not come into any wet during his 

 cure. *^* This is a very good one. 



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