48 Tl?e Expert Farrier. Chap. 9.- 



and let the Heels of the fliooe be wide enough, then the 

 forrance being thus clean wafhed and purged from all gravel 

 and mattrative Ituff, and the Ihooe fet on as aforefaid, fill 

 the wound full with this Powder, and flop it with Hurds, and 

 fplent it that the Hurds may keep in the Powder, and that 

 nothing get to the fore, and thus wafh and renew the Pow- 

 der to the place grieved every day once, and in a week or lit- 

 tle more it will be perfedly found and whole again, provi- 

 ded you fufFer not any dung to come to the grief, and that 

 he tread not in any wet during ihe time of the Cure, nei-" 

 ther Ihould he go forth of the Stable. \^ And thus have I 

 cured many Horfes of this malady. Another, 



Take of Soot and Bay-falt, of each one handful, and pound 

 them very well together, ( having opened and wafhed the 

 forrance, as before is fhewcd ) and put unto your Soot and 

 Salt the whites of three new laid Eggs, and fo temper and- 

 beat all well together, till you bring it to one entire body, 

 then dip fome Hurds therein, and fo Itop not only the place 

 it felf, being opened and made raw, but all the fole befides, 

 and fo Hop up the Frufh, fplenting it in fuch fort whereby 

 the . medicine may be kept in, and thus let him be dreflcd 

 once a day, and ordered as before is premonillied, and he 

 foon will be whole and found. "^^^ This 1 have often proved, 

 and cured many forrances of this nature. 



SECT, 30. F. 



Hippoph. VKTHatis hefl to cure aVrtO. 



fJippof. This difeafe you call the Fret^ is 

 only the griping and pain in the Belly, which comcth of fun- 

 dry caufes. The French do call it Tranchaifons^ which do 

 fignifie gr^pings, it is the plain Collick, caufed of wind, fome- 

 times bilious and iharp Humours, which defcending from the 

 Stomach, go down into the Guts and there torment him ', ' 

 and fometimes it cometh by reafon of Worms, Bots, or 

 Truncheons, which do ingender in the Stomach or Guts of 

 the Horfe^ which do feed and gnaw upon thePanch or Guts, 

 putting him to micklc pain and perplexity. The figns are, 

 he will forfakc his meat, lye down oft, and tumble, and when 



he 



