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brocations, calculated to form rigid eschars, 

 or painful callositieSy I shall communicate, 

 and earnestly recommend, a safe, simple, and 

 effectual method of cure, which I have 

 never yet seen once fail in an experience of 

 twenty years. 



In ev^erj^ twentij-four hours, but more par- 

 ticularly at er^cA time of the horse's returnino- 

 from the road or exercise, let the cracks or 

 SCRATCHES be washcd for a considerable time 

 with soap and warm ivciter, making a lather, 

 and continuing to rub them tenderly with the 

 suds, till they become pliable, and perfectly 

 clear from every degree of scurf or hardness 

 ^t the edges, and the stiffened mucus, or 

 oozing, is entirely washed away ; then wipe 

 very dry with a linen cloth, and when per- 

 fectly so, rub in a sufficient quantity oi cam- 

 phorated spermaceti ointment : there is no doubt 

 but they will soon submit to this simple 

 treatment, if regularly persevered in. On 

 the contrarj^ if in some days after this me- 

 thod has been adopted, you perceive the 

 cracks to be deep, the discharge copious, 

 and the smell foetid or stinking, you may 

 naturally conclude there is a foulness in the 



