1 8 ^ The Expert Farmer. Chap; i ol 



very morning an hour at leaft before his water, of this Pow- 

 der four fpoonfuls in white Wine, or ftrong Ale of each one 

 pint. This will take away all the corrupt and evil fevours 

 of his Breath, for this powder healeth all his inward parts 

 that putrefieth, from whence its bad Breath taketh its ori- 

 gen.*^* This is very good and approved, and a better reme- 

 dy you fliall find none. 



SECT. 17. S, 



Hippoph. yr^Hat is the befi way to cure er tak§ of rfSpIcnt ? 



Hippo/. This is to be done many ways, but 

 becaufe we are come to treat of this cure, I hold it not amifs 

 to make you underftand what afple^it is, by what means it 

 Cometh, how to know it, and which way to cure the fame, 

 and to take it clean away, hfpkm is in the beginning, a very 

 Criftle, howbeit if it belong let alone, it will come to be a 

 hard kone or excretiony and then it will not be ealily cured. It 

 Cometh to ^tHorfe by means of too hard travel and fore ri- 

 ding, whilft he is very young, or by bearing in his youth too 

 heavy burthens, by both which means the Greafe being mol- 

 ten falleth down into his leggs^ and fo breedeth this forrance, 

 you fhall have it bigger or iefler, according as the caufc of 

 Its coming was, it taketh its refidence for the moll part up- 

 on theinfide of the Jhank^ibout the middle thereof, but Ibme- 

 times again higher even adjoyning to the kiee^ which if it be 

 there, then it is more difficile to cure.. It will many times 

 caufe the Horfe to halt, but howfoever it will make him oft 

 to fiftmhk and tom/>, and many times to /aR m his travel. 

 Sometimes it cometh to a horje Hereditarily, like as doth the 

 fpanjen^ and other forrances and maladies,as if cither the Stelliott 

 ori^^rf be vifited therewith, as I have formerly intimated. 

 The figns how to know it are moft facile, viz.. Either by the 

 pj^ht ox feelings for that you may bothy&e and/ee/its fwelling.. 

 JNow to the cure,for which I fhall give you very many receipts. 

 Firft wafh the place with warm water, and (have away the 

 hdir^ then with your Jmifion-kziife flit a hole clean through the 

 i^iw, more then thejlength of a Barly corn, and then convey ia* 

 to the faid hole fo much ^rfmck^^ the fourth part of a Hafle- 



nut. 



