\ Kb il^e Expert Farrier. Chap. 1 4. 



too yellow t colour, anoint the places iiifeded therewith, 

 and it will kill it in three or four dreffings : This Unguent 

 will take away both the Scab and hair^ togetl^er : but have 

 you no f6ar,for it will not be long'ere new hair will come in it's 

 place. *^'^ With this receipt I have cured very bany Horfesy 

 who have not been a little over-run with this difeafe. Ano- 

 ther, 



The firll day let him blood on the leftlide of the Nech^^ then 

 two days after open the other f'^ein^ and three days after that 

 let him ^/oo«^ on the 5p//r-r'«w^and laflly two days after that 

 under the Tail^znd. let him bleed in every of thefe Feins^ then 

 fcarrifie all the places and wafh them with new Brine made 

 very fait : that done anoint the places with this Unguent. 



Take of quick-filver one ounce, tryed Hogs-greafe one 

 pound, Brimftone made into fine powder four ounces, Rape- 

 oyl one pint. Firft kill the quick-filver with fafting-fpittle, 

 and then incorporate them together throughly with ailthe^o- 

 ther Ingredients, and having anointed all the raw places with 

 this Ointment , caufe it the better to fink in by holding a bar 

 of hot-Iron near to the places, and then touch him no more 

 in three days after, and evermore when you drefs him, for- 

 get not firft to rub and fcarrifie the places infected till they do 

 begin to bleed ^ but if ail this will not avail, then burn the 

 rankeft places of the Mainge with an iron, having a button oft 

 the end thereof, but then take heed you enter not the/e/fc,but 

 bear your hand light upon the skin only, and let each hole be 

 Wellnigh a fpan from the other, ^^i^ This 1 have often ufed. 

 Another, 



Take of Chamberly four quarts, Bay-falt four handful*, 

 boyl them well together, and wafh the Horfe therewith, fo 

 hot as he can well fuffer it, and when he is well wafhed, take 

 Neat-foot oyl and put it irlto v/ater, and beat them well to- 

 gether, and there with anoint the raw places, and in four or 

 five times thus doing, he will be well. This feems to be a 

 good cure,but I do notremember that I ever did ufe it.Another, 



Take Mother of Salt- Peter, the beftand ftrongeft,and wafh 

 the fores therewith fo hot as the Horfe is able to fufFer it, and 

 in three or four times drelfingit, it will cure him. This I ne- 

 ver tryed, but the party that taught it me, averred that it 



would 



