Book. II. The Expert Farrier. 2^ 



of Turpentine three ounces, and of new wax one ounce, melt 

 them all together, and add to it a fourth part of the Pow- 

 der, Verdegreafe, and herewith anointing the fore, in few 

 days it will heal it, and skin it up very foundly. *^^ This 

 is a very well approved Receipt. But if your Horfe have 

 gotten a fore Foot by means of any channel nail, or bruife, 

 by treading upon aftone, which after rankleth inwardly, or 

 by other accident ^ then firll raife the skin with your Cornet, 

 and lay upon the forrance, Wheat-flower and Bores-greafe 

 well incorporate together, and drefs him therewith twice a 

 day, for two days together, and atthc feconddays end. 



Take the Powder of quick lime, Soap, and Tallow, and 

 mix them well together, and for three days or more apply it 

 to the place ^ dreffing it alfo twice a day, then wa/h the 

 wound with hot Vinegar, and put upon k CaprineJ, till it Frothy or 

 be whole. This I never tryed. But if the Hoof do weep, ^^'^^^^^ 

 or froath by fending forth thine, watry, or froathy Huft'j ^^"Z* 

 then open the top thereof with your Cornet, fo as the 

 wound may become hollow round about the extremities 

 thereof, fo far forth as that you may come to the Mailer 

 vein, to break it in funder j which done, let it bleed at plea- 

 fure what it will, and when the vein hath ftanched, fill up 

 the wound with Salt finely Powdred, then take Hurds and 

 fteep them in Vinegar, and fo ftop the wound therewith and 

 bind thereto a cloath to keep the fame from falling away, 

 and it will cure it. "^^"^ But if the Solehc Hoof^ and in danger 

 to fall away,draw it round 'twixt the Sole and the Hoof with 

 your drawing Iron, and fo take out the Sole quite, and then 

 fufFer his Foot to bleed well, then apply to it this Plaifter. 



Take the whites of Eggs, and beat them a little, and £q 

 laying them upon Hurds, apply it to the Foot, and bind it 

 on, that it fall not off, and let it remain on fo by the fpace of 

 two days, which ended open it, and wafh the Foot with 

 ftrong Vinegar warmed, and then fill the Sole with the Pow- 

 der of Salt and Tartar mixed together, and fo bind it up with 

 the Hurds fteeped in llrong Vinegar, and thus drefs it till it be 

 whole. Thefe two Receipts were taught me by a famous 

 Farrier of Paris in Fra/ice^ but 1 never had occafion to makjc 

 ufe of it, howbeit I elleem them to be very good. But if 



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