VVhen you finde your Horſe to be Surbated, preſently clap into each of his fore-feete tvvo nevv layd Egges, and cruſh them therein, then upon the top of them lay good ſtore of Covv-dung, thus ſtop him, and in foure houres he vvill recover.
1630, [Gervase] Markham, “How to Helpe the Surbating, or Soreness in the Feete”, in Markhams Faithfull Farrier. […], London: […] Tho[mas] Cotes for Michael Sparke Iunior, […], published 1638, page 101