40 Tl^e Expert Farrier. Chap. 9. 



you miifl kt all thefe boyl until all the Wine be confumed 

 and the Ingredients be very well incorporate, and then put 

 in the Turpentine, and then when it hath boy led one wauni 

 or two, take it from the fire, and keep it* with continual 

 flirring, till it be cold, and fo keep it in fome clean Veflel 

 for your ufe j you muft alfo add unto thefe things ( which 

 I had almoll forgotten ) of Frankincenfe four ounces made 

 into fine Powder. 



This Salve is to foften and moUifie the hoof, whereby to 

 make it to grow •, having thus prepared your Salve, before 

 you bind the hoof with the hoop and fiUitting as before is 

 fhewed, anoint and rub very^ell, where the hoop and flillit- 

 ting is to be placed, with the Salve, and then bind on the 

 iioop with the faid fiUitting, that done take hurds and rowl 

 it up into a rowl, the full length of the chink of the quar- 

 ter, and having firfl; anointed the hurds very well with the 

 Salve, lay it upon the chink of the falfe quarter, and fo 

 bind the hoof up v/ith the two long pieces, of the aforefaid 

 Jillitting, which werefewed unto the other piece of thea- 

 forefaid fiUitting, which bound and made fafl the hoop : 

 And let him not be drefled but once every three days, unty- 

 ing all, as well the hoop as fiUitting ^ continue him to this 

 kind of drefilng, fifteen or twenty days, or other svife ac- 

 cording as your difcretion fhall think to be requilite. 



Now when you fhall find that the Salve hath brought up 

 the hoof, and that now you know not how to harden it, and 

 make it folid and found, to make an able cure thereof, apply 

 this infuing Salve, Take of the ilrongelt white Wine Vi- 

 negar one quart, Diers-galls, of green Copperas both bruifcd, 

 of each four ounces j boyl thefe in the Vinegar to the Con- 

 fijmption of a Moiety, then ftrain it, and put unto it of old 

 Sallet-oyl one pint, and fo boyl it again, until the Vinegar 

 be all confumed, which you fhall know by ftirring it with a 

 little flick, and drawing the flick forth letting it drop into 

 the fire, and if that which droppeth from the flick into the 

 fire, do not crakle then let it boyl yet longer,- for then it is 

 Dot enough, but when it is fufficiently boyled by dropping 

 in a little of the medicine, it will burn without crackling, ■ 

 then take Lithergy of Gold, and Lithergy of Silver, of each 



half 



