2i The Expert Fdrrrier. C&ap. 9. 



~ fuch obflrndions, corruption, and putrefadion, not having 



2ny means to ventitfelf, or to avoid, or evacuate, but by this 

 y/ayonly, by growing into Knots, Pailils, Ulcers, or the like, 

 which be fo contagious and infedious, fo as if but any other 

 Uorfe do but gnaw or lick with his teeth or tongue, upon the 

 place infcded, he will be afluredly within a fhort time after 

 liimfelf infefted alfo •, and when once a Horfc is ftrucken or 

 infeded with this leprous malady, if he be not prefently 

 and skjlfuily cured , it is as infallible death to him, as if 

 he had either his throat cut, or his braweshQ2.t out Vv'ith a Butchers 



fAuin. ^Xj wherefore if in this cafe your Horfe be vilited with this 

 finiftrous difeafe, I could wifh you would carefully obfervc two 



1 things : The hrlt is, that fo foon as you do perceive this malady 

 to appear upon him, that you prefently fequefler him from his 

 fellows, iulofome other Stable or ilallby himfelf alone, for fear 



2 he might infed them, for that it is catching : And fecondly to 

 be very diligent in omitting no time or opportunity, in getting 

 him adminifcred unto for his Cure. The ligns of this difeafe are 

 ■fo plain and familiar, as that it needeth no defcription. I will 

 pafs to the cure. To the end therefore you may go the more 

 iecurely to work, whereby you may make it an able and perfed 

 cure, efpecially if you find the Pullils to be malevolent, and 

 greatly inflamed, then the firft day let him Biood in or near to 

 that A<fafier-vem, which doth moll feed and nourifh the Farcin., 

 then fo foon as. you have well hlonded him, give him this 

 purge, viz^ 



Take of Aloes, made into fine powder, one ounce, and a 

 quantity of jLo;f^o;? Treacle, fo much as will fuffice, and of life 

 )ioney fo much as will fuffice, mix thefe well together, and give 

 it him in a morning falling, and fix hours after give him white 

 water, neither needeth this bloodying him, or purgation, atiy way 

 hinder him from being drefi^ed for his difeafe,for that blood-letting 

 doth not only hinder it from running any further for that time, 

 and the Purge fendeth the difeafe from the He^^rt , to the end 

 it may no way annoy that place. Wherefore for the perfeding 

 of the cure, ■ > < •• -■ 



Take of Oyl de-Bay two ounces, of Eufotbium made into 

 fiae powder one ounce , incorporate both thefc well together, 

 tliat they may become but one body, then fearch for the firft 

 crigen, or fpring where the firll knots did begin, and fo continue 



fearching 



