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and Grains both made into fine Powder, of each one ounce, 

 then brew all thefe well together till it be but blood-warm, 

 and fo give it him to drink i then bathe and anoint the Legs 

 that be iwclied with Train-Oil twice a day, till the fwelling 

 go away j and give him Mafhes or white water, and feed hira 

 with fuch meat as he will beft eat, changing hisdietdayly, and 

 give it him by little at once, and after fbme fmall time thus 

 ^ent with him, if the weather be feafonable, turn him to grafs, 

 and helhalldo well and become found agarn. '^^^ This is all 

 the Droplie I do know, howfoever many Ferriers do talk much 

 of another kind which they do call the ff/mci^, which is not 

 truly a Droplie, but a difeafe diftindt from the droplie, unto 

 which young Ho fes are inclinable, that from FoUs and Colts 

 are bred in Fens, Moors, Marlhes, moiil and wet Grounds, 

 and Commons, by means whereof they will fwell exceeding- 

 ly under the belly, and fo foon as they do come to be hand- 

 led and backed, whereby they may be provoked to fweat, 

 they will prefently have inflammations under the ChanU^ run 

 atw/f , fall into an incurable Glanders, and in a word be- 

 come inwardly rotten : the cure is, 



Firft with your fleam ftrike him in fundry places under the Fcltrick. 

 helly where the fwelling is moft rank, and fo let the corrupt 

 A/Wand filth ifliie forth, by the fpace of an hour or two, then 

 wipe the places clean and dry, and then 

 1 Take of Buck-lie made very ftrong with chamber-lie and the 

 Alhes of Alhen wood, and diflblve into the Lie of Unguentum 

 Populeon , and Dialthea, of each one ounce, or as much as 

 will fufficc, according to the Lie you have j and being made 

 good and hot, wafh, bathe, and anoint the fwelling there- 

 with morning and evening till the fwelling be quite gone, and 

 after every drefllng trot him up and down by the fpace of a 

 quarter of an hour, which will be a very good means to caufe 

 the hHi?iouir to diflblve, andfo to depart the fooner and the bet- 

 ter V and for two or three days give him falling a quart of 

 good Ale, and of DUpeme two fpoonfiils which mult be im- 

 mediately bef,rc hiuroting lorth, after his drefllng, andfo 

 fet him up warm, ari4 -give him white water. ■^^* And thus 

 have 1 cured many Ho/fes of tiie Feitrkk' 



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