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and warm, renewing it every day once, and if in two or 

 three days it doth draw it to a head ( as it is very probable k. 

 will do) then lance it and heal it up either with Shooe-ma- 

 kers Wax laid on upon a Plaifter of leather, or elfe with a 

 Salve made of the yolk of an Egg, Wheat-flower, and com- 

 mon Honey well wrought together to a Salve, which you 

 muft alfo apply Plaifter-wife.*^'^ But if it do not come to 9. 

 head, and yet the fwelling continue ^ then 



Take of Pitch, and of Virgin- wax, of each three ounces, 

 Rofin half a pound, of the juyce of Ifop, and of Galbanum 

 of each half an ounce, and of Mirrah-iecondary half a pound, 

 of Bdellium- Arabicum, Populeon, and of the drops of Storax, 

 of each half an ounce, and of Deers-fuet half a pound, boy I 

 all thefe together in an earthen Pot, and when it is cold j 

 take of Bitumen half a pound, Bolearmoniack and of Go- 

 ftus, of each one ounce and half •, make all thefe into fine 

 Powder, and then incorporate them well with the other, and 

 fo boylthem all over again very well ■, that done, pour this 

 whole mixture or medicine into cold water, and fo make it 

 up into rovvls like a Salve for Plaifters : And when you are 

 to ufe it, fpread thereof upon Plaifters of Leather, whi§h 

 muft be fo large as to cover the Le^s full as far as the fwel- 

 lings are, which ( if any thing can do it ) this will aflwage 

 the fwelling, and give very much ftrength, and comfort the 

 ^he Senews and Nerves : Neither is this Plaifter to be remo- 

 ved fo long as it will remain on. *^* This I have applyed to 

 many Horfes very much annoyed with frvoln-Le£s,ai\d brought 

 them to their former fmallnefs, when zs Farriers have fpcnt 

 much time upon the Cure, and given it over at laft. But if 

 the fwelling do fall into the hinder-Legs^ or into all fonr-Legs 

 together ( being but a bad Sorrance ( caufing them to burn 

 and fwell exceedingly, and the hair to ftare, the caufe where- 

 of coming, (as I have before faid) from immoderate Ri- 

 ding, heat, and labour whereby the Greafe melting falleth 

 down into the Legs^ by reafon the Horfe cannot void it in his 

 Excrements, or elfe being over hot, he is walhed or negli- 

 gently fet up without fufficient ftore of litter and rubbing fb 

 as the taking cold, the Blood with the Greafe fetleth in the 

 tegs^ and there congealeth and jR> caufeth them to fwcll. 



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