The Expert Farrier, Chap. 17. 



from the bone, and then you may bring the flefh to be a very 

 Oyntment •, put of this into the forrance down to the bot- 

 tome, and this Will kill the e^mtter bQm and dry up and heal 

 it •, but you muft not fufFer him to come into any wet dirt, 

 or gravel, during the time you have him in cure. "^^"^ With 

 this medicine I cured one horfe only, for that I had no caul? 

 to ufc it to any other fince. Another^ 



Take of Arfnick the quantity of a fmall Bean, make it in- 

 to powder, and put it into the hole of the Sorrance, convey- 

 ing it down to thebottome, with your inltrument, and then 

 ff-op the mouth of the wound with Hurds, and bind it on 

 y/ith a clout ^ and a rowler, that the horfe may not bite it a- 

 way j and io let it remain four and twenty hours : Then 

 openir, and if you Ihall perceive the wound to look black 

 within, it is a token that the Arfnick did its Office, in well 

 working, then to allay the fire \ And to reftore the flejl) that 

 is thereby become mortified, taint the hole with Turpentine 

 and Hogs greafe molten together. Then take Pitch, Rofin, 

 and\Vax>of each like much, and of Turpentine as much as 

 of all the other three, and melt them, and fb make a Plai- 

 ner of Leather, with which you mult, cover the top of the 

 Sorrance, but firft be fure to convey the aforefaid taint to \ 

 thebottome, and then lay on your Plaifter, and thusdrefs^ 

 him daily till you have gotten forth the Core or Iharp Gri- I 

 file^ if the Arfnick have not eaten it out before , for if the I 

 Griftk be in the bottom of the wound and uncovered, you * 

 may raife it with your fingers or Inftrument, and fo pluck it 

 quite away, for till that it be out, the Sorrance will not 

 heal ^ that done, heal it up with your green Oyntment, or 

 ^\i^ with this Unguent : 



Take of common Honey, and of Verdegreafe in fine Pow- 

 der, of each fo much as will fuffice, boyl this till it be red, 

 and therewith taint the wound till it be whole, keeping e- 

 vermore the niouth of the wound open , left it heal up above, 

 'before it be well healed at the bottome ; neither let your 

 horfe come into any wet, or go forth of the Stable until he 

 be throughly cured. ■*^* Thus I have cured many ejmtter-bones. 

 Another, 



Gut the place to the quick, then take Virgin Wax, Pitch 



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