Part II. PerfeSt Farrier. 16% 



muft melt it. When you defign to ripen a Swelling, 

 add to it Turpentine and Pitch, and apply it as hot 

 as the Horfe can endure it } but upon a difcufllve 

 indication, that is not proper to be done. Whea 

 you have occafion to put it into a Horfe's Foot, 

 you muft apply it boiling hot. 



The following Ointment is an eafy and approv'd 

 Remedy, for wither'd Shoulders, or for Strains 

 or Wrenches in the Shoulders or Hips. Take a pint 

 of Spirit of Wine : Put it into a Cucurbit , or ftrong glafs 

 Viol, fo that two thirds of it Ye main empty } add half a 

 pound of Cafiile Soap Jliced frnall, and flopping the glafs 

 very clofe, fet it on hot j4jkes, till the So of be wholly 

 melted. Let it be quite cold before you unftop the Cucnr~ 

 bit or Bottle. Thus you have an Ointment that will 

 keep very long } for tho' it gathers a cruft on the 

 top, it remains very good underneath. 5 Tis to be 

 applied to the part afle&ed every day, for feven or 

 eight days *, the part being firft heated by rubbing 

 with a wifp of Straw. 



CHAP. XIII. 



Of Broken, Stiff, Tir*d y tycafdy Bruifed, or 

 SweWd Legs. 



T Hough the Cure of a broken Leg BroUn leg? 

 or Thigh-bone in a Horfe, is 

 very difficult, by reafon of the inconvenient Situ- 

 ation of the parts *, yet it is not impoflible : For I 

 have feen fuch Fra&ures cur'd, both in a Mule and 

 in a Ho*fe, without any other inconveniency, but 

 that of having the Shape of the Leg fpoii'd by the 

 Callus that reunites the Bones, and halting a little* 

 Thefc Cures were perforoi'd after the common 

 method of SpUms and Bandages^ as in Men ; the 

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