84 STRAINS. 



" does hair, Ar?72enia?i bole, rye four or oatmeal,'* 

 more than the properties of forming a cement 

 (equal to a bandage) for keeping the parts in a 

 firm and certain pofition, conftituting a pom- 

 pous prelude to the general idea of rest. 



No one advocate for cold charges, or ftrength- 

 ening poultices, will be confident enough to 

 declare they retain a futiicient portion of 

 Jlimulus to penetrate the integuments; and, 

 by their reftringent or contracting powers, aff'ed: 

 the tone or elafticity of the relaxed tendon. 

 If fo I will venture to hazard an opinion 

 that what efficacy they may hold individually 

 is intirely locked up in the mafs of compo- 

 fition, and forms no other merit as a corro- 

 borant than a medical fubilitute for a band- 

 age of rollers, &c. with this exception only, 

 that it bears the appearance of bufinefs, or 

 iagacity extraordinary, in the farrier and 

 groom employed in the elaborate preparation; 

 who may prevent their lofs of time, and prof- 

 titution of judgment, by methods much more 

 eminently entitled to approbation, as founded 

 upon principles of reajon, and fandlioned by 

 fuccefs. The fame obfervations hold good 

 in refped to poultices ; they never fliould be 



applied 



