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you muft not at all take down his Heels, when you 

 fhoe him, although I heretofore ordered you upon 

 other occafions to do it ; but on the contrary, you 

 muft keep his Heels as ftrong as poflible, and drive 

 the Nails only in the Toe, for the Heel being high 

 and narrow, you will not eaflly get them driven 

 there, neither could your Horfe fuffer it ; and then 

 your Horfe will travel with you as youpleafe : In- 

 deed this will not be the way to help his Hoof- 

 binding, but, on the contrary, it will make it worfe, 

 it being only to make him perform his Journey that 

 you do it. 



If your Horfe be fo ill Hoof- bound that he halteth 

 to the Ground with it, the belt and readiefl cure is 

 to take out his Soles, and put Shoes upon him which 

 have long Spunges: The way of taking out the 

 Soles is fhewn in the Second Part^ Sett. 2. not but 

 that thefe kind of Shoes, which I have been dif- 

 courfing of, help, and will, through Time, open his 

 Heels, bu^that will be in four or five Months Time ; 

 whereas fpis Soles had been taken out, he would 

 have been cured in three Weeks or a Month, pro- 

 viding that you took care to open his Heels, when 

 the Sole was out, by cleaving the Frufh, or by put- 

 ting in a Plate of Iron betwixt his Heels, fo that 

 it may keep them about two Inches further afunder 

 than they were before his Sole was taken out, and 

 that by fixing that Plate of Iron betwixt the two 

 Quarters of the Foot near the Heel, becaufe the 

 Frnfh, which is fofter than the reft of the Foot, 

 will yield and open, and fo make the Heels in a 

 condition to become large *, but it is fooner done 

 to give a ftroke with an Incifion-knife, and fo to 

 cleave and open the middle of the Frufh down al- 

 moft to the Pattern, to the end that that overture 

 may make the putting in of fome rolls of Linnen in 

 the Cltft of the Frufh (which muft be firft dipt in 

 the healing Charge) the more eafy to keep the In- 



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