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When the ulcer is by these means divested 

 of its virulence and cadaverous smell, the 

 callosity is sloughed off or extracted, and a 

 favourable appearance of incarnation come 

 on, the dressings may be changed from the 

 precipitate digestive, before described, to pled- 

 gets spread with Locatellns's haham, or the 



following EPULOTIC CERATE. 



Xake of white diachylon plaster and olive oil, each 

 two ounces ; 

 Locatellus's balsam^, ai>d baltam of capivi, each one 



ounce ; 

 Melt tlie plaster and Locatellus in the oil over the fire ; 

 take off, and when nearly cool, stir in the capivi, 

 a little at a time, tijl it is all incor|K)rated. 



In short, case^^ of this kind come so fre- 

 quently under the hands of the farrier, 

 that little might have been thought neces- 

 sary upon the subject : but I have been thus 

 explicit, for the information and advan- 

 tage of those who are strangers to both 

 THEORY and PRACTICE; that being 

 *' forewarned they may be forearmed/" and 

 not suffer a simple accident to be gradually 

 ripened to a serious misfortune ; but, avail- 

 ing themselves of this requisite instruction, 

 so dcstro}j the prevalence of mystery and 



