5 % Th^ Expert Farrier. Chap, i o. 



and difficile. I do therefore advife all Farriers my Brethren, 

 who fhall at any time take upon them this Cure, that they 

 do firlfc prepare the Body of the Horfe with fuch Preparatives 

 and Phyfick, as are meet to expel his peccant Humours, 

 which mull be alfo very carefully adminiftred, yea and that 

 a<:cordingto the Itrength and Ability of the Horfe j for the 

 fforfi car^not choofe but be feeble and weak, having of a 

 long time bdPorc been vifited with a Sicknefs of this nature j 

 yea, peradventure a whole year or two before together, du- 

 ring which time he hath continually wafted and languilhed, 

 wherefore he carmot be ftrong, but a very weak Horfe^ and 

 therefore his Phyfick mull be very gentle, yet fuch alfo which 

 may have operation whereby to work, otherwife Phyfick 

 is but caft away. The figns how to know this Difeafe need 

 iro further Defcription, and therefore I will proceed to the 

 Cure, for the which I will deliver you many Receipts, fome 

 whereof I have well experienced, to which I will give my 

 particular Mark, like as I have formerly done. And I do the 

 rather infert the more Receipts, becaufc ( as I have before 

 remembred ) that Receipt which will not cure one, will cure 

 another. 

 4}Unders. The firft therefore that is to be done in this cafe, is, to 

 prepare his body by giving him for four or five dales toge- 

 ther, inftead of his Oats and Provender, wheat Bran pre- 

 pared, like as I have before Ihewed you in the cafes of lick 

 'Horfej, efpccially in lib. i. chaf.p. feB.^. F. to qualifie 

 and dry up his moift aind bad humours abounding in him, then 

 let him bioud in the Neck, and the next day rake him, and 

 givehirti this Clifter. Make a decod?on of Mallows one 

 pint and a half, and put Unto it of frefh Butter, four ounces, 

 and of fallet Oyl a quarter of a pint, and adminifter it 

 bloud warm, and then with a ftrap of leather tie it to his 

 Tail, and then fafben the other end of the faid ftrap to his 

 Suriingle, fo ftraightthat his tail muft be cl-ofeto histuell, 

 that he cannot purge till it be loofned, then mount his back, 

 and let him be gently ridden, fometimes a foot pace, and 

 fometimjes an eafier trot for half an hour, then fet him up 

 warm cloathedand iittered,and let him ftand upon the Trench 

 three hours, tiuring which time he will purge kindly, then 



give; 



