1 5 (J 17;^ Espert Farmer. Chap. i^. 



wounds, and fo dry up h^id hHrnoiirs which do preoccupate 

 the body. I will commend unto you one only receipt which 

 ftall be fpecial good : 

 mflringmt Take of Oyl-de-Bay, four ounces, Orpin , Cantharides , 

 chafgs:, and Euphorbium, of each two ounces, make all 'thefe into 

 fine powder, and mix them with your Oyl-dc-Bay very well, 

 and therewith charge the place grieved. *^ This is alfo very 

 good to charge the fwelling of a Back^fmewJ^ram. 



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Ilippoph. r,f/Hat cure have you for a Ring-bone r" 



Hippof. A king-bone conieth two ways, to^ 

 wit, either by Nature^ or by j^cccidem j by Nature^ whea as 

 either the/^/Z/'o;^ or »i<irf have it,from whom the Colt is ingen- 

 dred, whereby he taketh it as Hereditary from them, and 

 therefore (as 1 haTe formerly admonifhed) I willdifTwade 

 you from breeding upon any fuch Horfe or Mare that either 

 had or have this malady. It cometh alfo accidentally by fome 

 knock or blow given either by fome other horfe or by his 

 Keeper or other perfon, and fometimes by fome evil hmwHr, 

 which through over-heats do fall down into the Legs, and 

 maketh its relidence upon the top of the cronet. It-beginneth 

 firlt withaflimy humour, which in time groweth to a hard 

 Griflle j you fijall know it, for that there will be a fwelling 

 round about the cronet of the hoof, adjoyning unto the lower 

 part of ihtfaftern, and the hair will ftare, and be briftly, and 

 wi will caule the horfe to halt. The cure is, firlt waft the 

 place, and fhave away the /;^/>'jtlT€a 

 . ^^^^^ Take quick, or HK/lackgd lime, newly taken from the Kill, 

 '■** ' y/hicb nvjit be well burned, the bell burned you may know 

 by its lightnefs, make your //we into fine powder, and lay it 

 upon the place fwelled all along of a good thicknefs, and 

 bind upon It a linnen cloth made faft about the foor ; and fo 

 put the horfe into the water, and let him ftand in the water a 

 pretty while, then take him forth, and uabiad th^ foot, and 

 he is infaliibly cured, for the burning of the Zi^we doth kill 

 the Ring-kone^ even unto the very root thereof. *^"^ With 

 K\m Receipt I have cured not fo few as an huadi ed horfsi zt 



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