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that is a fure fign that the grillly honey-comb bones within 

 the head are rotting and decaying daily, fo there is no hope 

 of a cure ; if fo, this diilemper oft proceeds from a broken 

 conflitution, or by an ill-cured diilemper, fuch as Fevers, 

 Farcies, Surfeits, or the like; I always found it a good twenty 

 to one againll a cure. Although M. La-fofle, and feveral other 

 authors have given their directions and methods of trepanning, 

 yet I have not feen nor heard of any Horfe that was trepan- 

 ned, but what ended in death: how^ever, I will agree with 

 M. La-foffe's judgment, in pointing out the true feat of the 

 above diforder, as I was an eye-witnefs to feveral Horfes in 

 this diflemper, when dead I have diifecled the heads of them, 

 and found the whole feat of the difordei' to be in the griflly 

 bones of the noftrils and head adjoining to the brain, and 

 found all that part quite rotten, and full of matter much of the 

 cancerous kind ; therefore there is no hope of a cure of fuch. 

 But however I will give you the following direftions. That 

 is, if you have to xlo with the above diforder it mud be in the 

 firft flage of it. 



Firfh bleed, and keep warm; then make ufe of Scalded 

 Bran with a very little Oats for Maflies, with warm Water, 

 and a little Sweet Hay, and no other kind of food, indulging 

 him with gentle exercife all the while. Then fumigate his 

 head three times a-day with hot Maflies, then immediately 

 after the fumigating or flimulating with the faid Maflies; pour 

 down each noilril a very fmall hornful of the following 

 decoftion. 



Take a full double handful of Rofemary, and boil it in four 

 quarts of Forge Water ; then add Honey of Rofes half a pound 

 and Sugar of Lead two ounces, boil the whole together, then 



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