i%i The Compleat Horfeman: or, 



boiling Pitch or Tar into the Foot, charging it after 

 it IS cold with abound of old Hogs Lard, melted in 

 a Skellet, to which is added, a pint of Vinegar, and 

 a fufficient quantity of Bran to thicken the Com- 

 pofition. 



If the Shoe bear harder upon one part of theFoot^ 

 than the reft ; pare the whole Foot a little, efpeci- 

 ally the bruis'd part ; and where it appears red and 

 bruis'd, thruft your Buttrefs deeper in, paring the 

 Sole almoft to the quick. Then apply the Oint- 

 ment for Pricfa, and tack on the Shoe with four 

 Nails ; renewing the Application till the Horfe 

 ceafes to halt. Then {top his Foot with a Remo- 

 lade, binding it on carefully. 



If the Foot he heated, by riding in hot and 

 iandy ground; take off the Shoe, pick the Foot 

 well ; then (top it with melted Tar, and anoint it 

 with the Ointment for the Hoof 



In general, nothing is more conducive to furba- 

 ted Feet, than Tar melted into the Foot ; or, Vine- 

 gar boifd with Soot, to the thicknefs of Broth, and 

 put into the Foot boiling hot •, with Hurds over it, 

 and Splents to keep it in. If all thefe Remedies 

 prove ineffectual, you mud at laft take out the 

 Sole, for which end, theufeof the fame Remedies 

 is very ferviceable, becaufe they moiften and foften 

 the Foot, and fo prepare the Sole for being taken 

 out with lefs difficulty and pain. 



. A prick with a Nail in Shoeing, or 



tbcfau in the Screet ' does fometimes fefter » 



and put the Horfe in danger of lofing 



his Foot To prevent fuch Confequences *, when 



a Farrier perceives in (hoeing a Horfe, that he 



complains, or fhrinks at every blow upon the Nail, 



it muft be immediately pull'd out \ for tho' blood 



follows, he may be ridden immediately without 



halting. If he halts prefently after he is mod, 'tis 



a fign that fome Nail either prefies the Vein, or 



touches 



