The seuenth Medicine.
If they be bruises, whether gotten by stroake, naughtie Saddles, or other rushes, from whence procéedeth many times old, putrified & most ranckorous vlcers, you shall first if the tumor be onely swelled and not broken, apply vnto it the fourth medicine of Loame and Vingar, but if it be an open old ranckorous vlcer, you shall take Hogs-grease, Turpentine, Waxe, and Verdigrease, of each a like quantitie, and being well mixt, and incorporated together, dresse the sore therewith, till it be whole, for this medicine will abate and kéepe downe any spungie or naughtie dead flesh which arises and kéepes the sore from healing, and may therefore alwayes be vsed in such like cases, whether the sore be new or old.
The eight Medicines.
If they be straynes eyther of ioynts or sinewes in what part or member soeuer it be, old or new, take strong Vinegar, Patch-grease, and Wheat-branne, and boyle them together till they be thick like a Pultus, and then apply it very hot to the strayne, Morning and Euening, and it is a most certayne cure, and will kéepe the member from growing foule, knotted, or gourded, and will also take away all swellings or paynes of the limbes whatsoeuer.
The ninth Medicine.
If they be Galles, of what kinde or nature soeuer, whether on the backe, limbes, or any other outward part of the bodie, you shal take first fresh Butter scalding hot, and with it first bathe and wash the sore, then take thicke Creame, & mixing it with the Soote of a Chimney till it be thicke, like a salue, with the same annoynt the sore place Morning and Euening, and it will cure it without any feare of dead flesh: if you doe strow vpon the sore the powder of Rossen it will be good also.
The tenth Medicine.
If they be any hurts in the eyes, as strokes, inflamations, Pinne-webbe, Canker, or any other mischiefe whatsoeuer, you shall then take true ground-Iuie, which otherwise is called of some Ale-hoofe, and beating a good handfull thereof in a morter, with a spoonefull or two of white Rosewater, or the water of Eye-bright, then strain it through a cleane wet cloath, and with that water dresse the sore eye Morning and Euening: or if you can conueniently thrée or foure times a day, for the oftner is the better, and it will without all fayle cure any sore eye in the world whatsoeuer, eyther of man or beast, or any other creature.
The eleuenth Medicine.
If they be excretions of bones, as Splents, Spauens, Curbs, Ringbones, or such like, in what part or member soeuer they be, you shall then take white Arsnicke, beaten or ground to fine powder, and making a little slit vpon the head of the excretion, the length of a Barly corne, or very little more, yet in any waies downe déepe to the excretion, & then with the poynt of your knife put the Arsnicke vpon the excretion, and so let the Horse stand with his head tied vp for two houres at least, for in that time the greatest anguish will be gone, and then put him vnto his meate, and in thrée or foure dayes after the excretion will fall away of it selfe; and then with a little swéet Butter you may cure the sore, which will not be great.