2$ 9 The Compleat Horfeman: or, 



proud flelb, and to hinder the Horfe from reaching 

 it with his Teeth. Befides, the Bandage muft not 

 be tied too hard, for fear of caufing an exceflive 

 Tumour. The beft: way is to renew the dreffing 

 every day, or at leaft every two days. 



CHAP. XVII. 



Of Vices of the Feet and Hoofs ; particularly of 

 Surbated Feet : And of Pricks made with Stubbs 

 or Nails in Shoeing, or in the Streets. 



TH E Hoofs of fome Horfes are fa hard and 

 Brittle, that they are apt to break near the 

 holes made by the Nails of their Shoes *, in which 

 cafe the beft way is, to fhoe fuch Horfes after the 

 full Moon, and never during the encreafe } and then 

 to anoint their Feet every day with the following 

 Ointment^ taking care that the foot be dry* and 

 clean'd from duft and dirt. 



Takg frejl) Butter-, and Sheetfs Suet 7 

 i nv +L\i!li' melted and freed from its Membranes- 

 of each a round ; white Wax cut into 

 fmall pieces, and common Turpentine-, of each four 

 Ounces \ Oil Olive-, fix Ounces : Put 'em alltogether 

 into a Bafon, and melt 'em. Then add a pint of 

 the juice of Plant ane\ and as foon as they begin to 

 boil, remove the VefTel from the Fire. Then fet it 

 on again -, and continue to remove and fet it on 

 a gain, afcer the fame manner, for the fpace of 

 eight or ten hours, till the juice be wholly confum'd 

 without boiling. Then remove the Veflel from the 

 Fire, and as foon as the Matter begins to thick- 

 en, add an Ounce of Powder of OUbanum, (tilling 

 without intermiilion, till it be quitecold. This 

 nment will make the Hoof grow without heading 



it ; 



