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run with water and matter about the FruJJ} and heel, which - 

 many will ignorantly imagine to be a difeafe in the Foor, not 

 knowing how it might come, when as it is nought elfe. but a 

 very bruife, gotten by treading upon a ftone or Hub, and I 

 have cured many horfes in this wife, -viz.. Take a wild or 

 ^garden Coiewort, and beat it with old Bores-greafe to an 

 Unguent, and apply it unto the Sorance, then leap his b^k., 

 and ride him an eallc Trot upon fward ground, to the end the 

 Medicine may.the better enter into the/crt-, and thus drefTing 

 him once a day he will foon be welI.\^This is very,good.But Honf- 

 if your horfe have a weeping hoof^ or fmall chfcs, which di- ^^((ping* 

 feale theF/"t77ce do call la Come queEfcHme^ the Cofpn which 

 frotheth or v^eefeth ^ Then the cure is ^ Firft to open the 

 place with yoar Drawing iron or Co-met^ I mean the outw^ard 

 part thereof only, till you come unto the MafierFein^ which 

 you muH break with your Cornet and fufFer it to bleed lb long 

 as it vv'ii], then fdl up the wound with the powder of Salt, 

 and hurds lleeped in Vinegar, and bind them fo on that they 

 fall not ofF,and thus by drefllng it every day once, and in Ihort 

 time it will be well. This cure I never tried my felf, but I 

 have been prefent fundry times in trance^ where I have feen 

 this cure fully perfeded by Marijhals there. 



But if the hoof be loofcj then : take Bettony, Rofemary, . 

 Rue, Red-Mints, Tanlie, Sothern-wood, oCeach like much: /2' 

 bray all thefe herbs with Tar, fo much as will fuffice, and the 

 powder of Bole- Armoniack, fo much as v/ill fuffice, and ap^. 

 ply it to the ^00/, till you find that it be fait again. ^"^ This 

 alio is very good. Another^ Take Tar, Brimflone in fine 

 powder, Wheat-bra-n, and the Urine of a Man-child : boyl 

 all thefe to a Pultis, and apply it hot to the hoof^ and this 

 will fallen it. \^ This is fingular good. But if the Vein lie . 

 bare in the/o/V of the hoof to grow over it, whereby itbe.- 

 cometh found again, make this. Plaiiler, and apply it to the 

 Sorance. „; ^^ 



Take Stone- Pitch, and Roiin, of each two ounces, Brim- ^ 

 flone in fine powder one ounce ;melt all thefe together till they ^'^"^f 

 be well incorporate, then when you take it from the fire, 

 add thereto of Turpentine one ounce, and foftir them all to- 

 gether, and as it cooleth, make it up into Ro wis, and when 



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