The gentlemans jockey, and approved farrier instructing in the natures, causes, and cures of all diseases incident to horses. With an exact and easie method of breeding, buying, dieting, and otherwise ordering all sorts of horses, as well for common and ordinary use, as the heats and course. With divers other curiosities collected by the long practice, experience and pains of J.H. Esquire, Matthew Hodson, Mr. Holled, Mr. Willis, Mr\ Robinson, Mr. Holden, Thomas Empson, Mr. Roper, Mr. Medcalf, and Nathaniel Shaw.

VII. The way to put in a French Rowel.

THat is, upon the lowest part of the Horses breast to that side that is lame, you shall with a sharp knife cut the skin through, not cross the breast but right down, half the length of your finger, then put your finger between the skin and the flesh, and raise the skin from the flesh round about the hole the breadth of a six pence, then take a piece of the upper leather of a shooe, and cut it in the manner of this Figure here prescribed; cut the piece of Leather round, and then cut out a hole

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round, as you see by the figure, then put a Needle and a thread through it, as you may per∣ceive by the two pricks in the top and bottom of the hole; then take a Tobacco-pipe or a quill, and cut it so that the wind may go through it; and put one end into the hole of his breast up∣wards and blow in the wind, and beat the wind upwards to the top and all over his shoulder; when you have blown it two or three times, run the Needle and thread once through the Rowel and once through the skin, and draw the Rowel into the cut: When you have thus placed the Rowel in the cut, with the hole of the Rowel right against the hole that you have cut in the breast, so that it may not move: then with your Needle and thread run a stitch or two o∣verthwart the cut to keep in the Rowel, as you are directed in the Margin: When you have done thus, anoint it with a piece of butter, and let the Rowel stand a week in the hole, and then cut the thread and take it out. This is the best Rowel that is. Proved.

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Your breath must not smell of Tobacco when you blow the skin up (for a sweet breath is best,) if it do, the place will swell the more.