Ill Tl^e Expert Farrier. Chap, i 6. 



wards : But as it were to run about the Pan ^ then fud- 

 denly rake them off: and putting them into a Prefs, prefs them 

 molt exceedingly, and look what comes from them is only 

 their Oyl, which you muft referve in a clofe glafs and fo flop 

 it well. 



Now there are other more artificial and curious ways 

 whereby to diftil and extrad this Oyl, yet this above them 

 all, is both the eafieft, furefl and leaft troubiefome way, and 

 the very belt for every mean capacity. "^^"^ This Oyl of Oats 

 is of all medicines whatfoever the molt excellent, and fove- 

 raignforthe 5o^^ ofthe//or/f, as being abftrafted from the 

 moll natural, wholefome, and bell nourifhing food which 

 doth belong to the fu dentation and iivcly-hood of the horfe^ 

 this Oyl being given by four or fiive fpoonfuls in fweet Wine, 

 one pint, or ftrong-Alc one quart, and fome of the Whey 

 poured in his noftrils, doth cure the Glanders before all other 

 medicines. It is alfo ( given in the fame manner ) the beft of 

 all PHrgations^ for it purgeth away all thofe venemous and Pec- 

 cant hnmoHrs that fcedeth the mofl incurable Farcin Whatfoe- 

 ver; & for my own part at what time I can conveniently come 

 by this Oyl of Oats, I will never ufe any other Oyl or uncfti- 

 ous matter in any medicine whatfoever, to be adminiftred in- 

 wardly but this only : I having found by good experience, 

 that it is the moft Soveraign of all fimples of that kind, and 

 thus I have fhewed you what Mr. Mar^iams opinion ( which 

 is the fame both with my Mafier and my Self) is, both of 

 this Oyl and its vertues, and fo I remit you to the ufe and 

 pradice thereof. ^'^ 



CHAP. XVII. 

 SECT I. P. 



Hippophylus. 



VV 



Hat is the Receipt which I have often times heard 

 fo highly commended among Farriers, called 

 Paftons, and to what nfe doth itferve ? 



tPpoL 



