218 The Expert Farrrier,- CRap. 22. 



tronnd therewith. \* This falve doth infinitely comfort a 

 .womJ green or old, be the fame Fiiluia of otherwifc. Verjr 

 good. - 



SECT. 4. VV. 



Hippoph. ■fT Ow do you take away a Wen, or other excretion 

 jm ari/inginthe ^Qih !' 

 Hippof. A Wen is a hard riling out of the/e/?j which Com- 

 eth fometimes by bad humours, but moil commonly by foiiie 

 Hurt, Stroke, Bruife, Blow, or with a Itone thrown at that 

 place, it is outwardly/p/fe, but towards the root it is matte- 

 rative, you need no figns whereby to knovV it, for it will be- 

 tray it felf by itsfweUing, The cure iv'-'V 

 mi or ex- If you cannot come to tie a double threa about it where- 

 mtion^. by to eat it off, as I have formerly fhewed yjm in the cure of 

 2ifpongy Wart : then with your Incifion knife cut it acrofs in^ 

 to four equal parts or quarters to the very bottom, but be- 

 ware you touch not either veins or iinews, then with Mercu- 

 ry, eat away the four quarters, or elfe burn them off with 

 your hot iron ^ then heal the place with your healing ialve, 

 ^^* This is very good > 



S E C T. J. W, 



Hippoph. "XJ^JHat is .good to take aw/iy Wind-galls .? 



V V Vi/^]3fo/ff>W-^«//j are terrible forrances, 

 which do breed in tht legs of a horfe^ as well on theoutfide as 

 GH the infide, a little above the Fethck.joym, and by their 

 fwelling are plainly difcovered, andmadevifibleto thef;'^, 

 ^ for they be bladders, wherein lyeth a jelly, which being let 



forth is thick^ and of the colour of "the yolk of an Egg, 

 whereof fome will be bigger, and fome lefler. It cometh 

 .moft commonly to Horfes in the Summer time, by reafbn they 

 are.ridden upon hard ground, and the Horfe being over-heat 

 by two hard riding, his greafefalhth down into his %j, and 

 fttleth there, and by that means breedeth this Malady, vi?e 

 c?L\\WJnd-ga!is^ and the;y will be fo painful unto him as to caufe 

 ifc!BQany. times halt. Tlie ligns to know them are by the 

 V . -- y ■• - ' - iwellings 



