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inconvenience it conftitutes, is the difagreeable 

 efFedl upon the eye (and indeed no inconjider^ 

 able one upon the pocket) when the horfe 

 comes to be fold. Windgalls are always very 

 much enlarged after fevere work, and again 

 reduced by exercife and conftant fridtion, or 

 fubftantial rubbing down in the ftable. And 

 this circumflance is mentioned only to corro- 

 borate the thefts advanced to eftablilh their 

 origin. 



Although a total eradication is but feldom 

 experienced, it will be neceffary to introduce 

 the moll: approved and rational methods now 

 in praftice to obtain the defirable objedl of re- 

 lief ; and this can be effedled only by rarefac-^ 

 tioUy repulfiofi and bandage: to promote the 

 intentional operations of which. 



Take oil of origanum ^nd fpirlts of turpentine each 



half an ounce ; 

 Camphorated fpirits of wine one ounce.— Mix w^ll to* 



gether : 



And with a fmall portion of tow fufficiently 

 moiften the tumours twice every day, leaving 

 a pledget wet upon each; and immediately 

 upon the centre fix a circular piece of lead 



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