ij^i Tl:)e Expert Farrier, Chap. 17! 



that day give him no Oats, and let his drink be white water, 

 and for your other diredions you may give him his allow- 

 ance of Oats all the other days, but you maft then wet them 

 either in ftrong Ale or good Beer, and you may travel or 

 give him exercife, but with moderation all thofe other days, 

 and three times every day you Ihall give him three or four 

 handfuls of Wheat-bran prepared, as before is fhewed you 

 in/. 2.C. ^.fcB.^.F. and thus continue him to this diet at 

 your pleafure. \* I have made tryal of this Cure, and I do 

 know it to be right good, for in a month or fix weeks I have 

 brought a gaunt and Purlive Horfe to have a belly as round, 

 fre/h, and as clear, as that of a fucking Colt, nor is this 

 Cure very chargeable or coftly j you mufl give him Wheat- 

 ftraw inftead of Hay, only in the night you may give him 

 Hky, provided it be'fprinkled with water. ■' --^ 



SECT. 12. P. 



Hippoph. ^J^Hat cure h^ve yon for a Horfe that is Prickt ? 



flippof. This Sorrance hath many names : 

 It is C3i\kd ^cdoyedyClfy^d^ Metraite^Pricklt^ &c. All which 

 names, we for the moft part do fetcti from tht French^ and all 

 is but Only plain Pricket, which occurreth to the Horfe either 

 through the unskilfulncfs or negligence of the Farrier^ in the 

 driving' of his Nails^ or in .the weaknefs of tlie Nails of 

 their evil pointing, or if a Nail fhould fortune to break in- 

 the quick, and not be immediately drawn forth, it will in' 

 fhort time fej[ler in the fleih, and foon after impo^ftumatey 

 and £0 in time beget a fowl Sore, which may ask much Art 

 to cure. The figns be, that he will complain when he tread- 

 eth upon ftony or hard ground efpecially, which fo foon as 

 you perceive, you have then juft caufe to fufped him to tx? 

 Prickt if he were lately fhod ^ wherefore the better to make 

 tryal, your way mull be to fearch the foot whereof he cotti- 

 plaineth, and you (hall no fooner put your Pinfbrs to the 

 place, but that he will prefently Ihrink in his fo9t by reafon 

 the nipping of the Pintors doth pain him to the quick v or 

 if you do but caft water upon the foot whereon he balt6t*h, 

 in fliort time yoti Ihall perceive the hoof to be fooner 'dify 



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