*34 0/ S trains /;2 Various Parts. 



is reft and time only can reftore the inju- 

 red parts to their proper tone. 



che hock. Strains in the hock are to be treated by 

 foaking the parts with coolers and re- 

 pellers \ but when the ligaments are hurt, 

 and they are attended with great weak- 

 nefs and pain, ufe the fomentation. If 

 a hardnefs Ihould remain on the outfide, 

 it may be removed by repeated blifter- 

 ing -, if within it may be out of the 

 power of any external applications to 

 remove ; however, the joint fhould be fired 

 gently with fmall razes or lines pretty 

 clofe together, and then covered with a 

 mercurial plaifter. To the difcutient fo- 

 mentation above mentioned may be added 

 crude fal armoniac, with a handful of 

 wood afhes boiled in it. 



The bliftering ointment for the above 

 purpofes may be found in the chapter of 

 Bone-Spavin 9 but the fubiimate fliould 

 be pmicteA 



Firing for xhe firing ufed for the ftrengthening 

 fhTfinews ^^^^^^^ finews or tendons fhould ad 

 how it <^"^y o^ t^e fkin, which by contrading 

 ihould be and hardening it all round the finews, 

 perform- comprefifes them more firmly like a ban- 

 dage. The bow^men of old fubmitted 



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