The twelfth Medicine.
If they be broken bones, or bones out of ioynt, you shall after you haue placed them in their due place, first annoynt them with the Oyle of Mallowes, or for want of it with warme Patch-grease, and then clap about them a plaster made of Pitch, Rossen, and Masticke, and so with soft and flat splents, so splent the member, as it may not moue, and so let it rest nine dayes ere you dresse it againe, and in any case so sling the Horse or Beast that he may not during that time, put his member to the ground, which a little diligence and payne will easily doe.
Diseases in the feete.
If your Horse haue any infirmitie in his hooues as quitter-bone, ouer-reach, pricke, crowne scabbe, rotten frush, or any such vlcerous disease, you shall first lay it open, and then heale it with the seuenth Medicine. But if it be foundring, fretteshing, or such like, then you shall first pare all his hooues cleane ouer, so thinne that you may discerne the quicke all ouer, then let him bloud at the toes, and take great store of bloud from him, but in any case cut not the veine in sunder: then take the sixt medicine and, being boyling hot (after hollow shoes haue béene tackt on his féete) with Flaxe hurds dipt therein, stoppe all the soales of his féete vp hard, and thus doe twice in sixe dayes, and it will bring his féete to their full perfection againe, without any great losse or trouble.
Diseases in the priuie parts, or for stifling.
As for the common infirmities in a Horses priuy parts, which are swellings, inflammations, incording, & such like, you shall but only swimme your horse in cold water Morning and Euening, and it is a present helpe, both for them, or the stifling of a horse in his hinder ioynt: Thus you sée these twelue medicines will sufficiently cure all the diseases in Horse or Beast whatsoeuer, which who so will not carry in his memory, he is worthy now and then to be punisht for his sloath, and sometimes to suffer losse, which may make him more industrious to studie for his owne good and profit. And thus much for the cure of diseases.
FINIS.