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and stricture upon the part where the blister 

 had been applied, but also relax the porous 

 system, giving admission to the anodyne for 

 the reduction of hTitabihty, and the corro- 

 borants to excite a de<j;ree of warmth and 

 stimulus upon the internal parts. 



However well founded any doubts of cure 

 mijiht have been, from the combined seve- 

 rities of the case, I was most agreeably de- 

 ceived in the suspicious opinion I had form- 

 ed ; for little more than a fortnight brought 

 me a letter of information, that every dis- 

 tressing symptom was alleviated ; the horse 

 fed well, and seemed almost free from pain ; 

 the stricture upon the joint was greatly sub- 

 dued, and the local enlargement promised 

 o'radual reductiout A stcond 'dccount follow- 

 ed ihejirst in a few^days, from which it ap- 

 peared, the horse lay down and got up with 

 little difBculty, put his foot io the ground, 

 bore a great part of the proportional weight 

 upon it in motion, and even walked several 

 iiteps in succession without halting. Thes'e 

 encouraging appearances powerfully dictated 

 an unremitting perseverance in the mode of 

 treatment already described, without the 



