74 LAMENESS. 



grand specific, eest, to crown this prelude 

 with success., 



This treatment may suffice when taken in 

 its early state ; but where the evil has been 

 suffered to increase, and accumulate to a 

 certain des^ree of lameness, attended with 

 visible tension, inflammation, and extreme 

 pain, as before described, let the above em- 

 brocation be used as there directed, it being 

 a proper preparative to the following stimu- 

 lative application, which will most certainly 

 and infallibly effect the cure, if the instruc- 

 tions here laid down are strictly adhered to. 



Take cantharides (in powder) three drachms ; 

 Oil of olives six ounces ; 

 Spirits of turpentine two ounces. 

 Mix the Spanish flies with the olive oil, then add 

 the turpentine. 



Half of this composition to be well rubbed 

 in the fore-legs, and the other half in four- 

 and-twenty hours after, taking care to em-r 

 ploy proper time in each operation ; rubbing 

 in a small quantity at once, and continuing 

 so to do by moderate friction, till the por- 

 tion prescribed is absorbed by the seat of 



