FARY, or FASHIONS, in farriery, a creeping ulcer, and the most loathsome, stinking, and filthy disease that a horse can be affected with.

For the cure, first bleed the horse well; then take oil of bay and euphorbium mixed together, and anoint the knots with it; or bathe the place with the stale of an ox or cow, and the herb called lion's foot, all boiled together. Some apply tallow and horse-dung, burn the knots with a hot iron, or wash the sore with salt, vinegar, alum, verdigrase, green copperas, and gun-powder, boiled in chamber-lee. Others again anoint the sores with a salve made of a penny-worth of tar, two penny worth of white mercury, and two handfuls of pigeon's dung.