Tl^e Expert Farrier. Chap, i i . 



you would ufe it, pour the fame into the Orifice by the help 

 of a red hot-iron, and fo all about the Sorrance, then clap 

 Hurds upon it, and over that a piece of Lcailier, cut and 

 Ihaped for the purpofe, and fo fpient it to keep it fall on. 

 Ufe thus to drefs him twice or thrice, and he will be cured. 

 \* This is very good. But if th^ foot have taken any harm 

 by anover-reach,ftub,prick, or gravel,then making the wound 

 very clean, and laying it bare, 



Take Sope, and Salt of each like much, fo much as will 

 fuffice, make them to an Unguent, then firft wafli the Sore 

 with Chamberly andSalt, or Beer and Salt, and dry it again, 

 with a linnen rag, then bind on the Medicine, and let it fore- 

 main four and twenty hours ^ and do thus if the wound be 

 great three or four days together : then having with this Me- 

 dicine exhaufted all the P^enome ( which it will foondo^) 

 take of Train-Oyi one fpoonful or two, and much Cerufe, 

 that is,white lead in fine powder, and fo work them to a thick 

 falve '-, then apply that to the forrance plailler-wife till it be 

 whole ^ which will not be long, for nothing doth dry up 

 fooner, or is more kindly, or Natural for the breeding of a 

 new ^00/ than this. Another molt foveraign for a hoof- 

 hound. 

 Hoof-'mnd, ^"'^ pluck off the Shooes, and Ihooe him «p again with 

 ""•'''' * half Moon or Innet fijooes'^ then eafe with your drawing-Iron 

 or Rape the quarters of the hoofs on both fides of the Feet^ 

 from the Cronet^ down to the end or bottom of the hoofs^ 

 fo deep till you perceive as it were a dew to come forth,and if 

 you maketwo'Rafesit will be the better, and enlargethe hoofs 

 the more, that done anoint the /joo/i above next to the hMr, 

 about the Cronet with this oyntment: 



Take of Turpentine one pound, of Wax, and of Sheepsor 

 Deers-Suet, of each half a pound, ofTarr, and of Sallet-oyl, 

 of each half a pint \ melt all but the Turpentine together, 

 and when it is almoll ready to be taken off from the fire, put 

 in your Turpentine, and ^o ftir it well together till it be cold. 

 Let hisfcoo/jbe anointed therewith once a day till you do per- 

 ceive he mendeth,and then let him be ridden upon foft, moift- 

 fwardy-ground, an hour or two every day once,for the Ipacc 

 of a Month^ and if he do not grow well at the ^(?w^/ end, 



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