222 ^^^ Compkat Horfc-mtWy CHAP. VIII. 



to a ^ore eye-, viz. foran p^e which bYznmluckyfiroke or firipeh 

 broken and beaten out of the heud of the horfe, I will give you 

 one only Receipt, which can never be parallel'd : to wit, 



Take Alum, andfirft burn it in a fire pan, and after when 

 it is burned fo, put it upon the hot coles, and let it burn there 

 till all the moifturebe quite confumed, and it becometh as light 

 as a feather, as white as fnow, and fo, brittle as that it will 

 break with every touch, uniefs it be very carefully handled, 

 ' when it is fo brittleas thatit will run to Alhes with every fmall 

 prelfure, and that the taib of Alum reraaineth little in the faid 

 Alum, then it is iufficiently burned ■■> then take-of this powder, 

 as much as will fuifice, and mix it with live- honey, and ftir them 

 well together, as that you do bring it to an Unguent, put of 

 this every day morning and evening into his eye with a fea- 

 ther, and Ijp hold your hand upon the eye a pretty while, that 

 the medicine cannot fuddenly get forth, and by thus doing in 

 few dales it will be throughly cured, though the eye be utterly 

 loft. 



SECT. 6,1 ,e. 



' Hippoph, T /\ THat is good to t^kf away a bony excretion, or 

 VV ^flefhy? 

 Bifpoferu^. This malady of a bony excretion coraeth moll com- 

 monly by the means of c4«/?/cj^/, and bwvning corrofwes^ which 

 be laid to wounds that areneer to the bonc'^ as when the wound 

 is either in the leg^ or about th^pafierns., for that the fiejh being 

 extremely burned and mortified byfuch caujiicks and corrofves, 

 it doth caule an excretion to grow upon thehane-, which by the 

 unskilfulnefs of the Ferrier the wound is healed up, but the ex' 

 eretion doth remain Hill upon the bone^ which becometh an ^j'f- 

 /orf, uniefs it be afterwards taken off, which occafioneth a new 

 cure, and over and above it enforceth oft times the Horfe to 

 halt .' fometimes again an excretion cometh by the Horfe being 

 galled with a lock or fetters, having been long continued upon 

 thefame/oc/^, without changing or removing in time conveni- 

 j cnt. But howfoever it coraeth, the cure is, 

 Excrctl- 1 JTake Elecampane root newly gathered, and cleanle it from 

 *"• its earth, and wrap it up in a brown paper, then wet the pa- 

 per, andfo heat it in the hot eipbers, and fo roJi it as you would 



do 



