29^ (y Scratches, Crown-Scabs, 



Anoint with this once or twice a day •, 

 and if the horfe is full or flefhy, you muft 

 bleed and purge-, and if the blood is in a 

 bad (late, the alteratives muft be given to 

 redlify it. 



The The crown-fcab is an humour that 



r T"h breaks out round the coronet, which is M 

 treated °^^ ^^^y fharp and itching, and attended 

 with a fcurfinefs : fharp waters prepared 

 ■with vitriol are generally ufed for the 

 cure ; but the fafeft way is firfl to mix 

 marfh-mallovv and yellow bafilicon, or 

 the wound-ointment, equal parts, and to 

 fpread them on tow, and lay all round the 

 coronet. A dofe or two of phyfick may 

 be very proper, with the diuretic drinks, 

 p. 290, and the alteratives above recom- 

 mended, in rebellious cafes. Fide Chap- ^ 

 ter on Alteratrces. 



Rat-tails Rat-tails are excrefcences, which creep 

 what, and from the paftern to the middle of the 

 hawcuied. (j^^j^i^s^ and are fo called from the re- 

 femblance they bear to the tail of a rat. 

 Some are moid, others di;y \ the former 

 may be treated with the drying ointment 

 and walhes, p. 288. the latter with the 

 mercurial ointment, p. 99. If the hard- 

 nefsdoes not fubmit to the iaft medicine, 



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