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blood in the Neck and Spur- veins. ^^"^ This is very good. 

 All cordial drinks are good for this infirmity. 



SECT. 23. P. 



H ippoph , \J\/ ti^^ i^ pt*r hefl cure for a falfe Qiiarter / 



Tfiippof A falfe Quarter is a very evil for- 

 ranee, it is a rift, crack, or chinck, which is mofb commonly 

 upon the infide of the Hoof, yet fometimes ( though rarely J 

 it happeneth upon the out .fide, it is occafioned fometimes by 

 evil fhooing, by evil paring, and fometimes by graveling, or 

 a prick with a nail or ftub : Neverthelefs which way foe- 

 ver it cometh, it will caufe the Horfe to halt, and watridi 

 blood will many times iflue out of the rift or chinck 9 the 

 •ligns are needlefs to recite, they be fo manifeft : The only 

 way to cure this malady and forrance is, firfl to take off the 

 fliooe, and to cut away" fo much of the Hoof on that fide 

 where the grief is, as that the fhooe being immediately fet 

 Falfe qur- on again, the chink may be wholly uncovered, then open the 

 *"'• chink to the quick with your drawing iron, and then fill up 



the rift with a rowl of hurds being dipped in this Unguent. 



Take Turpentine, Wax, and Sheeps-fuet, of each like 

 much> melt them together, and your rowl of hurds being 

 dipped therein, ftop the rift therewith, renewing it once a 

 day till it be whole, and thus the rift or chink being with 

 this Ointment clofed in the top, draw the place betwixt the 

 hoof and the hair with a hot iron overthwart that place, 

 which will caufe the hoof to grow, and ihoot all whole down- 

 wards, and when your Horfe goeth upright and found a- 

 again, let him not be ridden with any other fhooe until the 

 hoof be throughout hardened, neither let him be ridden upon 

 any hard ground, till his hoof is become very found and 

 j)erfed. "^^^ Another, 



For falfe Qiiarter, and to caufe the hoof to grow : 



Firft prepare a flat piece of Wood, making it an inch 



broad at leaft, and fo (lender as that it will bend like a hoop, 



^ whichmuftbealfo fo long, as that it may come well-nigh 



. twice about the cronet of the hoof* Then when you are to 



.bring it about the hoof have in areadinels apiece of fillit- 



: - ting, 



