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you can; then fix your clams quite below the Tefticle, on 

 the blood vefTels and ligament, then take the Tellicle off with 

 your hot iron jufl one inch above the clams ; then fear the 

 blood veffels ; but ftridly obferving that your iron is not too 

 hot, and be fure to flanch the blood : then apply on the veffels, 

 a little Goofe Oil and fear it in with your hot iron ; then let 

 go the blood veffels by a little at a time to prove whether the 

 blood is ftanched or not, before you let them go for good. — 

 Then do the fame with the other Tefticle in all refpefts : then 

 melt with the hot iron half a pint of Goofe Oil, and pour half 

 of it into one orifice and the other half into the other orifice, 

 then give the Scrotum a fliake; then put into each orifice a 

 piece of fat Bacon, the fize of a large Egg, then ftitch the 

 Scrotum acrofs to keep the Bacon in : then untie the Horfe 

 and get him into a loofe warm ftable, and obferve to indulge 

 him with Maffies and warm Water, and gentle walking exer- 

 cife, but do hot take him out of the ftable until the third day, 

 obferving not to touch the Wounds with any application at all, 

 but what is above-mentioned. 



The Method of FIRING or SCORING. 



That man that doth this work, always ought to fcarch the 

 parts where the operation is intended to be, whether the part 

 is fit for the reception of the fire, and clear from being gum- 

 my, and if fo, the fire will have the better effeth Then I fay 

 if a Spavin, or Curb, or Ringbone, or Whirlbone, or Back- 

 finew, or the Vives, or any other part require firing, apply 

 the iron on according as the part requires, and obferve to 

 draw the lines level and true, near half through the ftvin, but 

 ftriftly obferving not through the fkin, and always keep the 

 lines or fcores about three parts of an inch diftant from each 



other 



