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then take it off, for if you fuffer it to boyl it will turn red, 

 and iofe its vertue of healing, and become a corrafive, thea 

 Urain it through a cloath into fbme earthen Pot, or Pipkc% 

 and keep it for your ufe, laying fomething upon tli& mouth 

 of the VelTel, that dull get not into it, and if it be not drain- 

 ed, then the grounds in the bottom will corraiive a forehand 

 not heal it. "^^^ This is the mo/t foveraign Oyntment tliat 

 I; could ever know, for with it I have done fo many great, 

 cure^, as have made me admired by Farriers themfeives^ 

 who have courted me not a little for this Receipt, yea they 

 have proffered me ten poundstoteachit them ^ This cleanf^ 

 eth a wound, be it never fo foul, or iwfeded with dead^, 

 proud, fpungy or naughty FUJh^ it carnifieth, and heaialv 

 abundantly, and withal fo foundly, and firmly, as that it 

 doth never more break forth, it draweth forth Thorns, 

 Splinters, Nails, and all fuch things in the Flejlj, and in a 

 word it cureth all forts of fores and wounds. 



.. ' SECT. 5, C. 



Hippoph. \j\J H^t is good to he ^dmimfired to ^Horfcw^fl/e^ 

 Greafe is molten ? 



fJipfof. As touching this infirmity I have fufficiently /hew- 

 ed you before how it jcometh, the ligns how to know it, and. 

 how to cure the fame, and therefore I may now forbear to 

 fpend any more time in the Declaration thereof, only I will 

 give you one lingular Receipt more, and this it is. 



Firll, take Blood from the Neck^'vei^r, to a reafonable good (Sreafe ml- 

 Proportion, to the end all his inflamed blood may be let nn. 

 foitlx,. then give him to eat either Bran prepared as you are 

 fliewed in lik 2 » chaf. 9. fe^. 4. F. or dry Bran whether he will 

 eat heft, but if he will cat neither, and that he doth empty, 

 himfelf over much, then give him the Clifter Reftringenc 

 prcfcribed you in lib. 2. chaf, 6.fe&-.S.Clifier 3. letter C. orelfe- 

 if you pleafe, you may give him the 8. Clifier in tlie hmtfcciy 

 either of thefe two fo often as need fhall reqaire you may giv€.r 

 And if his appetite be not good, give himf Arraan pre fcrib^ 

 t)^ you. in lib. 1. chaf. z.feB.z. letter A: 2X\ii two days after 

 Id: him Blood in both the Fknk:veins^ and if you cannot 



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