Book.II. Tl^e Expert Farrier. -ry 



Embers, and together with the Powder of Commin, flop his 

 Feet therewith fo hot as they may be taken out of the Em- 

 bers, and put over the Sole a piece of Leather with fplents 

 clofe, to keep the Eggs that they come not forth. 



Take then a great Onion, pill andltamp it, and let it iiifufe . 

 orfteep^four and twenty hours together before, in theflrong- 

 elt white Wine- Vinegar you can get, fo much as will fuffice, 

 fo that it may be in readinefs againlt you have (topped your 

 Horfe, which mull be given him to drink with a horn fail- 

 ing, and after let him be warm covered, littered, let him 

 Hand upon the Trench three hours, and after that you may 

 give him meat, and white water. \* This is a moft approv- 

 ed good cure. If your Horfe have been long foundred, as a 

 month or better, to make aperfedcnre, and to fet him up 

 jTound again, it is needful the Soles of his Feet be taken oufj 

 by which means, new .and better will come in their Room, ^ 

 wherefore when you do intend to take them off, have in a,' 

 readinefs thefe things, viz. 



Take the tender tops of Ifope three handfuls, pound them 

 to a mafh in a Morter, wherev^'ith to ilanch his bleeduig, then 

 have alfo further in a readinefs this Receipt. ^ Fomdud 



Take Snails in the (hells, and break the fhells fo much as '''''^' 

 will fyffice, and take forth the Snails, and refei-ve them, then 

 take Bay-falt one handful, and of the tender tops of the sn- 

 ^Vi^ftred Netties you cap find, two or three good handfuls, 

 fct theffl with your Snails and Salt in a Morter^'to a very 

 Salve, then take oyt the Sole, then prefently flanch the bleed- 

 ing with your Ifope, and fo foon as the Foot leaveth bleed- 

 ing, apply to the Foot your other medicine, of Snails, Salt, 

 SJid Nettles, and fo bind up the Foot with cloaths, and fo hi 

 it remain four and twenty hours, then open it, and heal up 

 theforrance v/ith your green Ointment taught you in iih. 2, 

 ifhaj): 10. fdl. 4. and within two days you fhall lee a new Sols 

 ^cpming. "^^^ This is right good. 



But if he be foundred both in Feet and Body at Once, and 

 ,the fame tiiJi^, ^s it falleth out oft times, through indifcreet ^'''^'if''^,. 

 'and immoderste riding, by a moft violent heat given ^'^i^i aid Ba//.' 

 wher,efey' |:heblpod is become inllamed, and his greale molten-: 

 Then ^\xA rake him, and grf<: Itim the Clifter prefcribed' yon 



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