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Things good in General for a Prick or Stub in the Sole of a Horses Foot.

To pull off his Shoo, and pare his Foot so deep that you may discover the Hole, making the Mouth of it about the bredth of a Two-pence, then wash it well with Chamberly and Salt, or green Copperas and Allum boiled together in Water, then Tack on his Shoo again, and stop the Hole with Turpentine, Hogs-grease and Verdegrease melted together, and lay Flax or Towe upon it, and put over that Cows dung, and cover it with Leather, and splint it with two cross splints, and renew it once in two or three days, and keep him out of wet during the Cure. Or Taint it with Tallow and Turpentine melted together, and anoint his Coffin all over with Bolearmoniack and Vineger mingled together, and take red Nettles stamped with Vineger, and black or common Sope, and stop the Wound therewith, or to wash the Wound with Vineger and Salt; or if it be in the Summer, take the tender Buds or Leaves of Elder stamped; if in the Winter, the inner Rind of it, and melt some hot Tallow with it into the Wound. Or take Turpentine, brown Sugar-candy powdred, and white Ginger powdred, and melt them all in an Iron Spoon, and pour it hot into the Wound, and put Hurds or Flax upon it, or Roch-Allum burned and made into powder, and fill the Hole therewith, and lay Hurds thereupon, or Oyl of Turpentine poured into it is excellent good, for it will not only search it to the bottom, but take out the Venom and heal it up. Or after you have clensed it with Salt and Vineger, take Salt made into fine Powder, and four times so much Turpentine, and boyl them well together, and pour it into the Wound scalding hot, and put in∣to it the powder of Brimstone dissolved in white-Wine, and lay Hurds upon it. Or take Oyl de bay four Ounces, of Orpin, of Cantharides and Euforbium, of each two Ounces made all into fine powder, and set them on the Fire, keeping them stirring till they become an Ointment, and with it dress him as before is taught. But if the Foot be bruised, fear a Live Spider upon it with a hot Iron.

Notes

• The Nail or S••ub must be first drawn out and the Corruption let forth and made very clean, before you dress it.