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CHAP. 35. Of swelling in the necke after bloud-letting.

THe swelling of a horses necke after bloud-letting may come through diuers occasions, as namely by striking through the veine, so as some of the bloud being gotten betwixt the flesh and the veine, it there corrodeth and turneth to an impostume; or else by striking the veine with a rusty fleame, whereby the veine rankleth; or by some cold winde striking sud∣denly into the hole: or lastly by suffering the horse too soone to thrust downe his head, & graze or feed,

whereby humours resorting to that place, breedes a great impostumation. The cure is according to the o∣pinion of some Farriers, to take hemlocke and stampe it, and then to mingle it with sheepes dung, and vi∣negar, and so making a plaister thereof, to lay it to the swelling, renewing it once a day vntill it be whole. Other Farriers vse first to annoint the place with the oyle of camomill warmed, and then to lay vpon it a little hay, wet in cold water, and binde it about with a cloath, renewing it euery day the space of a weeke, to see whether it will grow to a head, or else vanish a∣way: if it grow to a head, you may then lance it, and thrust out the matter: then heale it vp by tainting it with flaxe dipt in turpentine and hogges grease mol∣ten together, dressing it so once a day vntill it bee whole.