Of the Curbe.

*THis is a long swelling beneath the Elbow of the hough, in the great sinnewe behind, and causeth the horse to halt, after that he hath been a while laboured and thereby somewhat heated. For the more the sinnew is strained, the grea∣ter griefe, which againe by his rest is eased. This commeth by bearing some great weight when the horse is younge, or else by some straine or wrinch, whereby the tender sinnewes are greeued, or rather bowed (as Russsius saith (whereof it is, called in I∣talian Curba a Curuando, that is to say, of bowing, for anguish whereof it doth swel, which [ 10] swelling is apparant to the eie, and maketh that legge to shew bigger than the other. The cure according to Martin is thus: Take of wine-Leeze a pinte, a porringer ful of Wheat flower, of Cumin halfe an ounce, and stirre them well togither, and being made warme charge the sore 3. or 4. daies, and when the swelling is almost gone, then draw it with a hot yron, and couer the burning with Pitch and Rozen moulten together, and lay it on good and warme, and clap thereon some flockes of his owne colour, or so nigh as may be gotten, and remoue them not, vntil they fal away of themselues. And for the space of nine daies let the horsse rest, and come in no wet.