Of GRAPY heels. 151 



Horfe ftill until the cement is dried and fixed, then let him be 

 in a loofe ftable, and in two months time take the Rollers and 

 Bandages off, and apply the Strengthening Charge, fee page 

 113, bind it up with a piece of Pafteboard and a Roller, and 

 let it remain on for two months at leafl ; the above method 

 always ferved my purpofe. 



Seftion, 54. 



Of GRAPY HEELS, 



nOHE Grapes are filthy, ftinking, growing bunches, re- 

 -^ fembling Warts; which grow upon Horfes Heels and 

 Fetlock-joints, and are own coufins to the inveterate Greafe, 

 which has been ill cured by tlie ufe of drying applications, 

 and badly treated by drying up the humor too quick, and 

 that generally caufes thick gummy Legs and the like. Alfo 

 make ufe as follows. 



A PLAISTERfor GRAPY HEELS. 



Take White Mercury in fine powder one ounce, and Oint- 

 ment of Marfh Mallows five ounces, mixed together for ufe; 

 then fpread of the above on pledgets of Tow, and apply it on 

 the part, and bind it clofe to, for fix days; then obferve to 

 renew the Plaifler, and fo continue every fix days until the 

 part is become flat and fine, and all the fpungy Grapes quite 

 fluffed clear off the the part: then heal it with Egyptiacum, 

 fee page 90, or make ufe of the ftrong drying and healing 

 mixture for the Inveterate Greafe, fee page 154, and make ufe 

 of it as it is there recommended, in every reipecl; and at the 



fame 



