;^8 • Tl7e$:^ert Farmer. Chap. it. 



mix and incorporate all thefe well together, and having firft 

 clipped or (haven away the Hair, apply this medicine Plai- 

 fter-wife to the forrance, juft fo far as the forrance goeth^ 

 and let it fo remain five days, and then take it away, and 

 wafli all the Legg, Foot and forrance with powdred Beef- 

 broth, and after rope his Legs with Thumbands of foftHay 

 wet, and he will be found. But then you muft underltand 

 that when at any time you do drefs the forrance, you do 

 not fail to take off the dry fcab, or what ever crufty thing 

 fliall be upon or about the place, and by walhing and cleanfing 

 the fore that you do make it marvellous clean. "^^"^This is a 

 very good Receipt. 



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Hippoph. %KTffat isigmd:to'ikip u Horfethat is Hide-bouHd ? 

 ^- Hipfof. This malady is when the ji^» of the 

 Horfe doth cleave to the Flefl], as you cannot with your hand 

 pull up the skjn from the Rihs ^ fometimcs itcometh through 

 extreme poverty and maceration j and fometimes through 

 the indifcretion of the Groom for want of good tending j fome- 

 times of a Surfet taken by over-riding, acd violent heats gi- 

 ven him, and then wafht,or negligently fuffered to ftand long 

 in the cold or in the rain : And fometimes again it comethof 

 corrupt Cholerkk^blood ficcicating the f/e/fc, which wanting its 

 natural courfe, caufeth the skin to fhrink and cling together, 

 and fo cleave the Boms and Flejii j it alfo raaketh him lick, and 

 to have a gaunt Belly flirunk up to his Flanks, and his Hmr 

 will ftare, and his Legs will fwell : And by thefe ligns you 

 ftaay know !he difeafe it is fo confpicuous. It caufeth alfo lie- 

 city and aridity in the Lherlmdi Lmgs, caufing great torment 

 throughout all the whole Body, and his dung will be very 

 hard and dry, and of a naughty favour, for his Body wilt be 

 very coftive, and if he have not help in reafonablc time, if 

 death it felf cnfue not, yet will atlatt other defperate mala- 

 dies attach him, whereof the leaft will be the Mainge, which 

 will not eafily or fuddenly be cured. The cure is to let him 

 Blood either on both fdes the NecK-^ or on both the Spur,veins^ 

 then cloth and litter hina warmj and do no more unto him 



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