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do a Warden j when it is throughly well rofted, that it be like 

 pap, fo hot as your horfe can fuffer it (for it muft not fcald 

 him) after you have with a flick (like as you do a Iplent) rub- 

 bed, knocked, and chafed the excretton^ bind this rofted root 

 dole unto the place, and fo let it remain on 24 hours before 

 you remove it , and in two or three times thus drefling it, the 

 excretion will rot and confume to nothing, and this will alfb 

 take away a fplent. ^^ This is very good. 



Another. 

 Take the oil of Origanum, and every morning and evening, 

 oroftner, take a little upon the brawn of your thumb, and > 

 rub the place, and it will therewith in time confume, and quite • 

 take it away. ^^"^ And this will alfo take away a fplent. 



SEC T. 7. £. 



Hippoph. T r\ yHat "Will cure an JmfoflMm in the ears of a 

 ..w. Vy Horfe? 



Mifffofe/f^i. This difeafe proceeds from' fundry caules, as by 

 means of fome blow with forae ftaff or other fuch like thing, 

 which he receiveth about the ears or poll-, or elle by means of 

 fome hurt he may get by being wrung or galled with a new or 

 hard hempen halter, efpecially if a knot be neeror upon the 

 place i fometiraes it comes alfo of a cold taken in the headland 

 fometimes again by meansof badand/j^cc^wf hf/moars-j -which re- 

 Ming in the head^do make their paflage by the ears ; it is eafily 

 known by its much burning, glowing, andfwel]ing,and by the 

 hgrfes un willingnefs to be touched and handled about that place j. 

 rf it be an impoflumation, then thus it mull be<:ured. 



Take Linfeed and make it into fine powder, : and wheat. E^rsim- 

 flower, of each half a ^intrOrdiuary-H^^iie^rbneiJOitit, tried P^^^""^'*" 

 Hogs-greafe orte pound, mix allthefe Well, arid warm them up- ^^^'" 

 on a fire, keeping them co&tinu^lly flirring ; then take of this 

 j Ointment and fpread it upon a Urincn cloth, or upon a placer 

 I ^'leatfeer,^ the breadth of the/vVelliilg offlyt, -'and appfy it^vlrarrii 

 to the place, and renew it once evefy fo^uf and twenty hours, 

 Itiil it either do break or be fo ripe as that it may be opened? 

 which mull be done downwards, that the corruption may ea- 

 % iffiie away, then heal it up with this Salve. 



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