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age ; that if the tumor has a large cavity, it should be laid 

 •pen, and if it acquires an ulcerous disposition, it should be 

 treated as such. 



Tt-MORS. When these appear on the poll, withers, under 

 the jaws, or in the groins of horses, they should be forwarded 

 by ripening poultices of oat-meal, boiled soft in milk, mixed 

 with oil and lard, and applied twice a day, till the matter is 

 perceived to grow soft, and moves under the fingers ; and then 

 it should be let out by a sufficiently large opening with the 

 lancet. Let the opening be full as far as the matter extends. 

 After cleansing the sore, apply pledgets of tow, spread with a 

 salve, or ointment, made of Venice turpentine, beeswax, oil 

 of olives, and yellow rosin; and let these be administered 

 twice a day, if the discharge is great, till a proper digestion 

 takes place, when it should be changed for pledgets spread 

 with the red precipitate ointment, applied in the same manner.. 

 Should the sore not digest, but run a thin witter, foment it aa 

 often as you dress it, and apply over this dressing, a strong 

 beer poultice, and continue this rill the matter grows thick, 

 and the sore liorid. Should any proud flesh get into the sore^ 

 wash it as often as you dress it, with a solution of blue vitriol 

 in water, or sprinkle it with burnt allum and precipitate. If 

 these should not prove sufficiently powerful, apply caustics, by 

 washing it with a solution of half an ounce of corrosive subli- 

 mate in a pint of water. When the sore can be tightly com- 

 pressed with a bandage, however, these funguses may be 

 generally prevented. 



Tumors caused by bruises, should, if nee ssary, be bathed 

 with hot vinegar and verjuice; and then a flannel cloth should 

 be wrapped round the part, if it can be done. If tliis does not 

 abate the swelling, especially if it be in either of the legs, 

 poultice it twice a day, after bathing it with wine lees, or beer 

 groands and oat meal, or with vinegar, oil, and oat meal, till 

 the swelling abates ; when, in order to disperse it entirely, let 

 it be bathed twice a day with a mixture of two oimces oi' crude 

 sal amtnoniac in a quart of chamber-lie, having rags dipped in 

 it and laid on. 



When the extravasated blood is not dispersed by thes^ 

 means, let an opening be made in the skin, and let the blood 

 out. and then heal the wound. 



Scratches, is a disease in the legs of horses, occasioned by 

 bad blood and too Irird labor. The skin of the legs becomes 

 cracked open, emitting a reddish colored humor. To cure the ;; 

 disease, wash the cracks with soap suds, and then rub theaa 



