Of the Farcion.
THe Farcion is a vilde disease, ingendred of ill bloud, flegmaticke matter, and vn∣kindly feeding, it appeareth in a horse like vnto little knottes in the flesh, as bigge as a Hasell Nutte,* 1.1 the knottes will encrease daily and inflame, impostume, and breake and when the knots amount to threescore, they wil euery night after breed so many more till they haue ouer-runne the horses bodye, and with the poison, which is mighty and also strong, soone bring gim to his death: This disease is very infectious and dangerous for some horses, yet if it be taken in any time it is easie to be holpen: the cure thereof is in [ 40] this manner. Take a sharpe Bodkin and thrust it through the neather part of his nose, that he may bleede: or if you will to let him bloude in the necke-vaine shall not be amisse: then feele the knots, and as many as are soft launce them and let them runne, then take strong Lye, Lime, and Allum, and with the same bath all his sores, and it shall in short space cure him. There is also another manner of curing this disease, and that is thus: Take a sharpe launce-knife, and in the top of the horses forehead, iust betweene his eies, make a long slit euen to the scull: then with a blunt instrument for the purpose lose the flesh from the scalp a pretty compasse: then take Carret-rootes cut into little thinne round pieces, and putte them betweene the skinne and the scull, as many as you can, then close vp the wound, and once a daie annoint it with fresh Butter: This is a most sure and approued way to cure the [ 50] Farcion, for looke how this wound thus made, shall rot, waste, and grow sound, so shall the Farcion breake, drie vp, and be healed, because all the poison that feedeth the disease shall be altogether drawne into the fore-head, where it shall die and waste away. The onely fault of this cure is, it will be somwhat long, and it is a foule eie-sore vntil it be whole. Some vse to burne this sorance, but that is naught and dangerous, as who so proues it shal find.