74 LAMENESS. 



being fliaken well together, the parts affected 

 mull be properly and patiently bathed with a 

 fufficient quantity every night and morning, 

 till tlie whole is confumed, leaving that grand 

 ipecific, REST, to crown this prelude with 

 luccefs. 



This treatment may fuffice when taken in 

 its early ftate ; but where the evil has been 

 fuitered to increafe, and accumulate to a cer- 

 tain degree of lamenefs, attended with vifible 

 teniion, inflammation, and extreme pain, as 

 before defcribed, let the above embrocation be 

 ufed as there diredled, it being a proper prepar- 

 ative to the following jftimulative application, 

 which will moft certainly and infallibly effed: 

 the cure, if the inflrudions here laid down 

 are ftriftly adhered to. 



Take cantharldes (in powder) three drachms ; 

 Oil of olives fix ounces ; 

 Spirits of turpentine two ounces. 

 Mix the Spanifh flies with the olive oil, then add 

 the turpentine. 



Half of this compofition to be well rubbed 



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into the fore-legs, and the other half in four- 



