and lay it in the embers all night, then strew it on the galled place; but if it bleed, strew thereon little verdigrease or old shoe leather burnt ⟨in⟩ ashes.
For a broken wind, take a boars dung and powder it, and pour a good quantity of it into milk luke warm, give the horse a quart every third day and in four or five times it will cure him.
For a horse cough, take five or six eggs, and lay them in sharp white wine-vinegar, till the shells be somewhat soft, then sling them down his throat and it will cure forthwith.
For the belly bound, take good wort, and ⟨so⟩ much soap as an egg, mixed together, and give it to your horse to drink.
For the batts, take a good handful of agrimony, and make the horse to eat it early in the morning, and keep him fasting a pretty while after it.
For the hidebound, take fenugreek, tumerick, anniseeds, bay-berries, liquorish and cumminseeds of each a like quantity, beat them to powder, mix them well together, and give him spoonful in ale or beer at a time, blood warm, and this will cure him speedily.
For itching and burning in the eyes, take rosewater, plantain water, myrtle, houseleek, and flower-water of turti prepared, of camphir, of white siruse, without opium, and the whites of roasted eggs, of each three grains, set the water on the fire until it be hot, and heat them to for the space of three or four hours, then strain them, and keep the liquor in a brass vessel well stopped, apply this to the corner of the eyes.
For a Fistula in the head, take the juice of houseleek, and dip a lock of wool in it, put in his ears and bind it fast; observe to do this once a day and it will help him.
