Part I. PerfeB Farrier. % i * 



kaft danger in it j let the Horfe bleed iufficiently, 

 then ftop the bleeding, by filling the Orifice with 

 Rabbet or Hare-wool, and afterwards few up the 

 Skin in two parts \ there will be gathered a littles 

 Matter, but by greafing the Wound, in eight or tea 

 Pays the Horfe will be healed,and fometime fooner : 

 Before that this Operation be made, the Horfe's 

 Heels fliould be very much taken down, and then 

 (hod with Planch- flloes, as the Mules ate, and let 

 him carry thofe Shoes three or four Days before 

 the Operation, and alfo walk abroad with them, tha£ 

 fo he may be accuftomed to them \ after which you 

 ihall perform the Operation. And for the more fe- 

 curity, that you may not cut the Fore-Thigh or 

 Plat-Pein % you muft be fure to make the Operation 

 four Fingers breadth lower than the Veins : Thus 

 the Operation will have more effecl: upon the Pa«* 

 ftern, and alfo you will not cut the Vein* and in 

 eight or ten Days the Horfe will be recovered, the 

 Wound healed up, and he will be in a better condi- 

 tion to travel than formerly. 



People make the like Operation upon Horfes which 

 have their Patterns altogether caft forwards, by cut* 

 ting them four Fingers breadth higher than theKnee^ 

 juft upon the Fore-part of the Fore-Thigh ; they 

 firft cut the Skin above the Sinew, which is very 

 ftiff and ftretched upon the fore-part of the Leg 4 " 

 then they raife the Sinew with a Shamofs, of wild 

 Goat's Horn, by putting it quite beneath the Si- 

 new } afterwards they cut the Sinew with the In^' 

 ciGon-knife, quite thorow to the Shamy-hotn 7 the^ 

 fill the Wound with Salt, and put Hurds or coarfe 

 Flax, dipt into warm Turpentine, above it % and 

 they hinder the Horfe to come at it with his Teeth % 

 for to keep the apparel fait, they wrap the p3rt 

 about with a Cloth, which muft be fewed, for fear 

 of preffing the Horfe's Leg too hard, which would 

 iftake it fwell * then they leave him in that manner* 



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