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crooked, proceeding oft times from naughty and malignant 

 Humours j fometimes it is ingendred from fome wound which 

 hath not been well healed ^ fometimes it cometh by means 

 of aftripe, which having been ftrongly laid on, that it hath 

 bruifed tlie flelh to the bone, whereby it hath putrified in- 

 wardly, and either brake forth of it felf, or was opened 

 by the Farrier ^ and thus it cometh to be a FifinU ^ fome- 

 times it cometh by a wrench, or pinch with a Collar in 

 drawing, or by being wrung by the Tree of a bad Saddle i 

 and fometimes it gendreth of its own accord by the means 

 of peccant and bilous Humours, which hath long lain lurk- 

 ing in the body of the Horfe. The figns how to know 

 it are fo manifest, as that it ncedeth not an Ecce. The way 

 how to cure it, is to fearch to the bottom either with a 

 probe of lead, or elfe with fome other thing which will bend 

 and yield which way foevcr the concavity of the forrance 

 leadeth it : And when you have found the bottom thereof, 

 let it be opened down-wards, if it may poITibly be done, 

 to the end the Corruption may the better ifliie from the 

 place ^ then taint for two or three days with tryed Hogs- 

 greafe, thereby to caufe the hole to be wider, and then in- 

 jed this water following .• 



Take of Sublimate, and of Precepitate, of each fo much 

 as will lie upon a three pence, of Allum, and of white Co- ^'■/^'*^^' 

 peras, of each three ounces, burn all thefe in an Earthen- 

 pot, but firft rub the bottom with a little Oyl, that it may 

 not burn there ^ this done burn them all together, then take 

 of fair clear water, two quarts, boyl this water firfl by 

 it felf, and fcvim it in the boy ling, then take it from the fire, 

 and put in as much of this Powder as will lie upon a ihil- 

 ling at twice, and thus it is made. But if you be defirous to 

 make this water of more ftrength and efficacy, take then 

 fair water, and Coltrough or Smiths water, of each like 

 much, and of white Wine- Vinegar a third part, and with the 

 alhes of Alhen-wood, make lye of them, with the water and 

 Vinegar, and fo make your water with this Powder and lye, 

 and the former ingredients, according as before is taught 

 you. Injeft this water with a Syringe into the forrance, and 

 in fhort time it will kill the Fiftula, and heal it up. 



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