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an Egg, beat and incorporate all thefe together, and after 

 you have ended to anoint the place fwelled with Balfome : 

 Charge every day for four or five days after, the place 

 J!|€rewith, and he will be well. \* This is very good. 



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Hippoph. y^HAt is good to dry up Huiiwurs ? 



Hiffof. This kind of drying up of //«- 

 monrsj is but only to reftrain them for working too much 

 upon wounds, whereby the better to cure them. The way 

 therefore is, 



Firft bathe the forrancc well with hot molten frefli Butter, 

 and then ftrew upon it the powder of Rolin for a day or two j 

 then take of the thickcft Cream, and of Soot, of each as 

 much as will fuffice, and work them to a thick Pafte, and fo 

 apply it to the forrance Plaifter-wife, and it will both dry 

 up the Hnmmr which poITefleth it, and heal up and skin tl-ic 

 fore in a (hort fpacc. \^ This I have often ufed, and it is 

 right good. 



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Hippoph. y^ Hat is hep: to cure the hurt in the Shoulder, 

 or fk Member .♦' ■ 

 Hippof There are many things good for a malady of this 

 nature, and when I come to treat of Sprains, Soresj and 

 Wounds, I fliall deliver them imto you,and therefore I will' 

 now refer them to their proper place, only I will give you one 

 for the prcfent. 

 mt shoul' Take Oyl-de-Bay, Dialthea, frefh Butter, Oyl of Turpen- 

 tine, of each two ounces, boyl and mix them wdl together, 

 and when they be well incorporate, anoint the place grieved 

 therewith fo hot as the Horfe can well fuffer it without 

 fcalding, and let him be thus anointed twice or thrice a day, 

 stfid give the Horfe moderate exercife by walking him a Foot- 

 pace gently up and dc'wn. AikI this is a certain and an approved 

 remedy. This I never tryed, but a great farrier who is cry- 

 ed up for famous, teught it me, and wiflied me to makeufe 

 thereof, SECT, 



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