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Fleam, piercing to the Paftern', and fill the cleft, 

 (not the Foot; with a great number of Bolfters, 

 befmear'd with a mixture of equal parts of Tar, Ho- 

 ney, and Turpentine, boiPd together } the Foot being 

 firft drefs'd, and Splents laid on. 



CHAP. XXL 



Of all forts of Wounds and Hurts. 



SOme Wounds are fo (light, that the Cure confifts 

 only in keeping them clean ; and others are fo 

 painful, that, unlefs they be taken care of, they 

 prove fatal. Wounds in the Flejh are more eafily 

 cur'd, than thofe in the Sinews, Tendons, or Bones : 

 Thofe upon a Joint, are feldom or never cur'd. In 

 hot weather, Wounds are apt to gangrene and mor- 

 tify, thro' the corruption bred by Flies and other 

 Infe&S} in cold weather they are long a doling. 

 If a Horfe be fhot through the Body with a Muf- 

 quet Butlet,the charge of the Cure is extreamly great, 

 and the Event always uncertain. In order to obtain 

 a regular method of curing Wounds, let the follow- 

 ing Rules be obferv'd- 



1. Since Horfe's flefh is very apt to 

 Kules for corrupt upon the leaft contulion •, and 



munis' fince the leaft corru P tion retards tIie 

 Cure ; let the Wound be prob'd very 



gently, and as feldom as poflible, with Probes of 

 Juniper, or fome Aromatkk-wood, well dry'd. Indeed 

 filver Probes are belt for deep Wounds •, and thofe of 

 'Lead may be us'd inftead of Strings in Setons, for 

 Lead never heats the Part. 



2. Let the Proud ftefi, to which the Wounds of 

 Horfes are, very fubjeft, be kept down with Banda- 

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