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AT first this disorder requires no other method of cure than what is common to other boils, and inflamed tumours. But sometimes it degenerates to a sinuous ulcer, through ill management or neglect.

There is a small sinus under the poll bone, where the matter is apt to lodge, unless care be taken to keep the part firm with a bandage: [sic] But instead of that the farriers generally use to thrust in a long teat, which raises the flesh and opens a way into the sinus. And thus an ulcer is created where there needs be none.—All therefore that is further necessary on this head is, to caution the practitioner against such ill methods. And if the tumour has a very large cavity, it is better to lay it open, than to thrust foreign substances into it. And if it acquires an ulcerous disposition it must be treated as such.

TAKE the marrow of any animals' bones, and having strained it, perfume it with sweet scented oil, Russian or Antique, and it is fit for use; and it is said to have the power of quickening the growth of the hair, perhaps by communicating a softness to the skin; and opening the pores about the roots of the hair.

IT is said that late potatoes, or such as are not ripe make the best seed, and that planting such restores a degenerated variety.