The epitome of the whole art of husbandry comprising all necessary directions for the improvement of it ... : together with the gentlemans heroick exercise, discoursing of horses, their nature and use ... : to which is annexed by way of appendix, a new method of planting fruit trees and improving of an orchard / by J.B. Gent.

Of a Horse that stumbleth, which is called the Cordes, with the Remedy.

THis distemper appeareth in the further Legs of the Body of the Horse; it is cal∣led the Cordes, because the Corde is a Sinew that breedeth amongst the Sinews, the one end cometh down towards the Shackle-vein, and so up through the Leg, and goeth over the in∣ward side of the Knee, and so over the Shoul∣der, and so along the Neck by the Weasant, and it goeth over the Temples under his Eye, and down over the Snout, betwixt both the Nostrils and the Gristle, there knit the length of an Almond. The Remedy is, to take a sharp Knife, and cut a slit even at the top of his Nose just with the point of the Gristles, open the slit, and you shall perceive a white string, take it up with a Boars Tooth, or a Bucks Horn, that is crooked, or some Bodkin made so, and twine it about the strait, and cut it asunder; you may twine it so much, as that you may rear his foot from the ground, then stitch up the slit, and anoint it with Butter, and the Horse will undoubtedly be cured.