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anoint the place with fvveet Butter only every day till it be 

 whole. *^<"^ This is fpecial good. Another, 



Take of the Oyl of Exeter and taking every day once or 

 twice a little thereof upon the brawn of your Thumb, rub 

 and anoint the place therewith, and thus doing, it will take 

 it quite away, but this will ask long time to do it. *\"^ This 

 I have tryed. Thus have I given you very many Receipts for 

 this malady, mofl of which I know to be good from my own 

 experience : The relidue which I never tryed, where cryed 

 up unto me by very skilful Farriers and Marilhals, for very 

 good. The fremh do call this malady Snrots and Epneks^ or 

 Bffimls, ^ 



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}^i^^o^\\, \/l7 Hat helf have yoH for fiHmbling'i 



^ ^ Hiffof. This inconvenience cometh many 

 ways, fbmetimes it cometh ftaturally and fometimes acciden- 

 talfyy it cometh naturaUy by reafon the fimws of the Pore-legs 

 are fomewhat ftraight, fo that the Horfe is not able to han- 

 dle his Legs with that dexterity and agility he fhould, and 

 the^only remedy to cure him of this defed is to cut him of 

 the Cords ^as we term it> viz.. by cutting a flit upon the 

 very top of his^Nofe, and with your cromt to take up the two **^ 

 great Sinews which you fhall there find, and fo cut them in 

 Kinder, and after to heal it up again with fome healing 

 Salve, and this will do him no harm, but good, for by this- 

 doing it will give him ufe of his leggs fo perfectly, as that 

 fee will feldom or never after trif any more, and this can 

 every ordinary Smith do. \* And my counfel is, that when 

 at any time you fhall either breed or buy a young horje^ be- 

 fore, or prefently after you fhall ^^c^ him, let him be thus 

 cut of the Cords , and you fhall find great profit thereby. 

 The feeond caufe that maketh a horfe to fumble, is accidemd 

 and this cometh either by means of the putting forth of a 

 fflwt or a ridge bone^ or about Wind-galls, or by fome detri- 

 ment taken in the foot, as by being hot, foundred ^ prick't 

 ftub*d, gravel'd, or the like, or by fome Sinew-fprain, or fome 

 hurt or wrench in the fkoulder^ or by foaie pinch in the IVi- 



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