254 TkelAikRiER's NewGnUe, Ch. XCII. 



the Parts fometimes with VitrloI-water, at leaft when you 

 perceive the Itching Rone, pour melted Tar all over the 

 Frog, and keep the Foot clean from Dirt and Filth. 



CHAP, XGI. 



Of the Crown-fcab. 



*Tp Fl I S proceeds from a malignant fliarp Matter ouzing 

 -*• thro' the Skin above the Cronet or Coronet^ which 

 frets off the Hair, and hardens into a white mealy Scab. 

 In fome Hories it is accompanied with a Moifture, and 

 fends forth a llinking Matter, like the Pains and Watry 

 Sores defcrib'd in the 84th Chapter. 



The Cure is, firfl to fcrape off the Scabs gently, and af- 

 terwards wafli the Sores with Copperas or Vitriol-water ; 

 fome make ufe of Spirits of Wine, wherein Tobacco has 

 been infus'd, which often fucceeds ; others cure this Scab 

 by applying Soap and Salt ; but if it be of an old (landing, 

 and grown very obllinate, the following Plaiiter will be of 

 great Ufe. 



" Take Rofm half a Pound, Pitch fix Ounces, Turpen- 

 tine four Ounces, Verdegreafe and Brimllone in fine 

 Powder, of each three Ounces : Melt the Pitch, Rofin, 

 and Turpentine, over a gentle Fire, and then ftir in your 

 Powders 5 if it be too hard, you may foften it by adding 

 a little more Turpentine; and if you incorporate a fmall 

 quantity of Qiiickfilver with it, it will be fo much the 

 more effectual. This muft be fpread on Leather, and 

 applied to the Part, firft {having away the Hair, letting 

 it lie fo long as it will ftick. 

 The fame may be applied to the Legs and Pafterns, if the 

 Affedion fpreads above the Cronet to thofe Parts, giving 

 your Horfe now and then a little Antimony among his 

 Oats until he be cured. But if by reafon of this Scab, the 

 Cronet become ulcerated, and fome Part of the Griftle be 

 infected, as fometimes falls out, you are to extirpate all 

 that is ufelefs, and heal up the Sore, as has been direded in 

 the Cure of Ulcers, ^c. 



CHAP, xcn. 



Of Figs. 



'TPHESE are fpongy Excrefcences v.'hich moft common- 



•*• ly grow out on the Feet of fuch Horfes as are high and 



hollow, with large flefliy Heels ; they are caufed by all the 



com- 



