2p4 *h e Compleat Horjeman : or, 



Sponges are improper, becaufe they drive the Hu- 

 mours upwards to the Coronet ; fo that in fuch cafes 

 you muft prepare the Sponge only with melted Wax y 

 and then make Tents of it, which will fwell and keep 

 down the Proud fleflo, if the Part be carefully bound 

 up with Splents. 



To promote the fuccefs of external 



? m £ AT T . llh Remedies, 'twill be proper to add in- 

 for Wounds. , *,. . * l , . . 



ward Medicines, not Purgatives, which 



loofen the Humours, and occafion Defluxions upon 

 the part ; but fuch as purify the Blood, and refill 

 Corruption. For which end, the following Pills are 

 of .lingular Ufe. 



Take the fineft and clearefl Affa-foetida, Bayberries 

 of Provence or Italy, and Cinnabar , all in fine pouder % 

 of each a pound : With a fufficient quantity of ftrong 

 Brandy, make a Mafs in a brafs Mortar, to be form- 

 ed into Pills, weighing fourteen Drams each ; two 

 of which dried, may be given in three half pints of 

 Wine, once in two Days, or once every Day, till he 

 has taken eight or ten ; making him ftand bridled 

 two hours before and after the taking of every 

 Dofe. Thefe Pills may be kept twenty Years *, and 

 are not only of wonderful Ufe againft Wounds, es- 

 pecially in an Army, where an expeditious Cure is 

 requir'd, but likewife againft the Farcin and Wormsy 

 and againft the ffiedding of the Hair from the Head and 

 Neck -, in which cafe three Dofes of thefe Pills, to- 

 gether with Bleeding, and the external ufe of Lime- 

 water j and after that, Flower of Brimftone, given 

 every day in moiften'd Bran, will compleat the 

 Cure. Thefe Pills are alfo very proper againft eat- 

 iw Scabs in the Mane and TaiL if the external Ufe of 

 Lime-water be join'd to them, and againft running 

 Sores in the Legs, Warts, Bunches^ Ouitterbones 3 and 

 fuch like ftubborn Diftempers. 



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