Book. II. Tloe Expert Farrier, %%(^ 



tops of Worm-wood, Smallage, Pellitory, and of Branca- 

 urlina, of each like much, and beat them together with old 

 Bores-greafe, fo much as will fuffice, and apply it to the place : 

 Neither did I try this. Another, Firft wafh and fhave as be- 

 fore, and knock, beat, and rub the fftem three or four times, 

 then take marlh Mallow-roots boy led with the sh^n on, and 

 laid to the place, and it will take away thtfflent : This I ne- 

 ver made ufe of, but a very good Farrier taught it me, who 

 avowed it to be right good. Another, 



Take Muftard-feed, Mallow-roots, and Ox-dung, all ftam- 

 ped and boyied together, and Plailler-wife apply it to the 

 place three or four times. This I never ufed. Another, 



Take Auripigmentum made into fine powder, and lay it 

 upon the y/>/c«/', and it will take it off;, but beware that this 

 powder do touch neither vein norlinew,forit is a very cor- 

 roding thing. ^^* Another ^ 



Take two heads of Gariick and pill them, and cut them 

 fmall, but do neither ftamp nor bruife them : Then take of 

 Salt the like quantity, and mix them with your Gariick, and 

 divide them into twp.equal parts, and put them into two fine 

 linnen clouts, and bind thcm'upon the ends of two flicks, of 

 a fqot in length apiece of the fafliion of two fiiort wooden 

 Foyks^ but not fo long, being not above twelve inches a piece. 

 Take then your blood ilick, and rub, knock, and beat, the 

 Spltm thcreyvfithyery;well to foften it, then prick it through 

 the skm vv;ith; your hhod fiajfe. and Fleam \ then take of the 

 OylofNuts one pint, and put it into a fmall Pipkin j and 

 fct it upon the: fire in a Chafrng-difn with coles, and make it 

 boy ling hot, .and when it is ready to boyi, put into it youf 

 ihort il;icks or Foyls, which hath the Gariick and Salt faft- 

 ned unto them, and firft wdth the Foj/, and then with the o- 

 ther-('I me^n by turns ) a|)ply them hot to \}i\t f^lmt :^'sxA be- 

 tween whiles, rub and ilroke the 5j?/£'?;r down-wards, with 

 your Thumb, whereby to bring forth the hiood^ till having 

 with the Foyls very well mollified the faid Sfknt^ you may 

 the. qpre eafUy crufli forth the hlood whereof t\\zfflcm is in- 

 gendred, and.tbrmed,-,. it being indeed .compad of bad and 

 corrupt ^/o9^ : And tiius, is. the' 5p/[e»f' cured, oaly you muft 

 remember to anoint tjisjplace two or three times aftej with 



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