\ 5 1 Tl)e Expert Farrier. Chap. 1 8. 



CHAP. XVIII. 



S ECT. I. ^ 



Hippophems. 



"V" "7*11" "T^^^ ctinhave yon for the quick or running 



V w Hlppof. This is a noyfome difeafe, and 



infedious, a very formal Mdnge , and neer neighbour to the 

 Leprofa or Elephant iquc difeafe. It cometh by Surfeit taken 

 by over-riding, when the blood is over-hot 3 it doth putrifie 

 and corrupt the blood, and confequently the pflo, and at laft 

 breaketh forth into this malady, which we call the qHtckr 

 fcab. And the reafon why we do give it this name is, for 

 that it runneth from one member of the horfe to the other 5 

 fometime it will be in the mck^, and at other times in the 

 hreaft of the horfe, now in the Main, and then in the Tail, &c. 

 The cure is, 

 Qukli^ Firit (have or clip away the hair from that place viilted. 



Scab. fo clofe as may be, and take offtheyc^r/and fcabs with fome 

 old Curry comb, Oyfter-fhell, or fome fuch thing. Then ^ 

 Take fair cold water with a linncn cloth, waflb and bathe- 

 the places very well, and lay the linnen cloth wet upon the 

 place, and fo touch it no more in ten days, and if in that 

 time the qMck^fcab do not heal, then drcfs it as before, and | 

 fo a third time, or a fourth, or fo oft as neceffity requireth , 

 till it be throughly healed. But remember that the day i 

 before you thus drefs the Sorrance after this manner, yoa 

 take ( to a reafonable quantity ) of blood from the Nech^vein. 

 ^^'^ This is an approved cure. Another as good as the for- 

 mer. 



Firfl let him blood, and then Ihave or clip away the hair 

 clofe, as in the former cure. Then take Mallows and Marfli 

 Mallowes, of each like much, and boyl them in fair water as 

 much as will fuffice, till the herbs be foft, and with the 

 herbs and dccodion, bathe and wafh the forrance two or 

 three days together warm j then take of common Hony one 



pint, 



