Of Surbating.
THis is a beating of the hoof against the ground, called of the Italians, Sobatitura; it cometh sometime by means of evil shooing, lying too flat to his foot; or by going long bare foot, and sometime by the hardness of the ground, and high lifting of the Horse. And those Horses that be flat-footed, the coffins whereof are tender and weak, are most commonly subject to this sorance. The signes be these: the Horse will halt on both his fore-legs, and go stiffely and creep∣ing, as though he were half foundered. The cure according to Martin is thus: Take off his shooes, pare him as little as may be; and if the shooes be not easie, that is to say, long, large, and hollow enough, then make them so, and then tack them on again with four or five nails. That done, stop his feet with Bran, and Hogs-grease boyled together, so hot as may be; and also cover all the coffin round about with the same, binding all in together with a cloth, and a list fastened about the joynt, renewing it every day once, until it be whole, and give the Horse during that while warm water; and let him stand dry and warm, and not be travelled until he be whole.