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CLASS IV. 



WOUNDS, ULCERS, FISTULA, 

 AND POLL EVIL. 



WOUNDS 



Are a species of injury to which horses 

 are not only perpetually liable, but of so 

 many different kinds, and requiring such 

 f arious modes of treatment, {according to the 

 cause, appearance, situation, depth, and 

 state of the wound, or habit of the subject) 

 that, to' enumerate the whole, with all pos- 

 sible or probable circumstances, would be to 

 write a volume on the article alone; which 

 is certainly entitled to every degree oi atten-- 

 tion and instruction, from the simple and com- 

 plex cases that so frequently occur. And 

 though it may naturally be supposed that 

 wounds of size, depth, or danger, must con- 

 sequently come under the immediate care 



