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CHAP. 57. Of the wrench in the shoulder.

THe wrench or straine in the shoulder, cometh of some dangerous slipping or sliding, either in the stable or abroad, or of too s••ddaine stopping, when a horse gallops, or by falles, either on the planks, or on slippery ground, or by too sodaine turning vnsure ground, or by going too rashly out of some dore, or by the stroake of another horse: you shall perceiue it by his trailing his leg vpon the ground close after him. The cure is, to let him bloud vpon the plat veine, & take a∣way the quantity of 3 pints of bloud, which bloud you must saue in a pot, & put thereunto, first of strong vine∣gar a quart, & halfe a dozen broken egges, shels & al, & so much wheat flowre as wil thicken al that liquor; that done, put therunto of Bole-armoniack beaten into fine powder, a pound, of Sanguis Draconis 2 ounces, & min∣gle them altogether, so as the flowre may not be per∣ceiued, and if it be too soft, you may adde a little more vinegar: then with your hand daube all the shouder from the maine downewarde and betwixt the fore-bowels

all against the haire, and let not the horse de∣part out of that place, vntill the charge be surely faste∣ned vnto the skinne, that done, carry him into the stable, and tye him vp to the racke, and suffer him not to lie downe all the day, and giue him a little meat, dyetting him very moderately the space of fifteene daies, during which time he may not stirre out of his place, but only to lye downe: and euery day once refresh the shoulder point with this charge, laying still new vpon the old; and at the fifteene daies end leade him abroad to see how he goeth, and if he be somewhat amended, then let him rest without trauelling the space of one moneth, and that will bring his shoulder to perfection: but if he mende nothing at all, for all this that is done, then you shall rowell him as is before shewed in the former Chapter, iust vpon the shoulder point, & so keep him rowelled the space of fifteene daies, not forgetting to stirre the rowell and clense the wound each other day, and then walke him vp & downe faire and softly, and turne him alwaies on the contrary side to the sore; and when he goeth vpright pull out the rowell, and heale vp the wound with turpentine and hogges grease molten together, as is before said: but if all this will not serue, then it shall be needfull to draw him chequor-wise with a hot yron, ouer all the shoulder point, & also to make him to draw in a plough euery day two howers at the least, to settle his ioints, for the space of three weekes or a moneth; and if any thing will helpe, these two last remedies will set him sound. Now there be other Farriers, which for this griefe first let the horse bloud in the breast veine, and then rowell him from the neather parte of the

spade bone downe to the point of the shoulder, which done, you shall set a patten shoe vpon the sound foote, and so turne the horse to grasse for the space of a moneth, not forgetting euery other day to stirre and remoue the rowels, and to thurst out the matter▪ then assoone as you see him go sound, you shall take off his patten shoe, and pull out the ro∣wels, and then let him runne still at grasse, till he haue taken a frost or two, and no doubt but he will conti∣nue sound.