The historie of foure-footed beastes Describing the true and liuely figure of euery beast, with a discourse of their seuerall names, conditions, kindes, vertues (both naturall and medicinall) countries of their breed, their loue and hate to mankinde, and the wonderfull worke of God in their creation, preseruation, and destruction. Necessary for all diuines and students, because the story of euery beast is amplified with narrations out of Scriptures, fathers, phylosophers, physitians, and poets: wherein are declared diuers hyerogliphicks, emblems, epigrams, and other good histories, collected out of all the volumes of Conradus Gesner, and all other writers to this present day. By Edward Topsell.

Of the running Frush. [ 40]

THe Frush is the tenderest part of the hooue towardes the heele, cal∣led of the Italians Fettone, and because it is fashioned like a forked head, the French men cal it Furchette, which word our Ferrers, ei∣ther for not knowing rightly how to pronounce it, or else perhaps for easinesse sake of pronuntiation, do make it a monasillable, & pro¦nounce it the Frush, in which Frush breedeth many times a roten∣nesse or corruption proceeding of humours that commeth out of [ 50] the legge, whereby the legge is kept cleane from the windgals and all other humours and swellings by meanes that the humors haue passage that way. Not∣withstanding the discommodity of the sorance is greater than the commodity, because it maketh the horses feet so weak and tender▪ as he is not able to tred vpon any hard ground The signes be these.

The horse wil hauls, and specially when the passage of the humour is stopt with anye grauel gathered in the Frush, and not being stopt it wil continually runne, the sauour whereof wil bee so strong as a man is not able to abide it, and in some places it wil looke raw. The cure according to Martin is thus. First take off the shooe and pare away all the corrupt places and make them raw, so as you may see the water yssue out of the raw pla∣ces, then tack on the shooe againe, being first made wide and large inough. That done, take of foote one handfull, of salte as much, bruse them well togither in a dish, and putte thereunto the white of three Egges, and temper them togither, and with a little Towe dipt therein, stop all the foote and especially the Frush, and splent is so as it may not fall [ 10] out, renewing it once a day the space of seuen daies, and then he will bee whole. During which time let the horse rest, and come in no wet, at the seauen daies end leaue stopping him, and ride him abroad, and alwaies when he commeth in, let his sore foote be cleane washed, that no grauell remaine therein, without doing any more vnto him.