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habit, or an acrimony in the blood, require 

 ing rectification ; in that case continue your 

 washings with soap and warm zoater every 

 night and morning ; take away a proportion 

 of blood according to the directions before 

 given under that head^ rubbing in a small 

 quantity of the strong jnercurial ointment^ 

 (instead of the camphorated spermaceti) ad- 

 ministering txvi^ purging balls : and if neces-N 

 sary afterwards, a diuretic ball every other 

 morning for a fortnight, as will be hereafter 

 described, under the article Grease^ when we 

 come to that subject. 



THRUSH, 



Commonly called ** the Running Thrushy' 

 is a var icons state of the frog, which, becom- 

 ing perforated in different parts, bears the 

 appearance of rapid decay and rottenness ; 

 occasioned by an ichorous corrosive dis- 

 charge, frequently the evident effect of neg-- 

 lect in suifering the horse to go badly shod, 

 till the frog, by repeated bruises, loses its 

 original property, and becomes diseased. 

 To inattention the complaint is generally ow- 

 ing, and by early care is as generally curedc 



