83 STRAINS. 



doubts of the efficacy of the liquid blifler before 

 defcribed. 



Take of Venice turpentine and quickfilver each one 



ounce; rub together in a mortar till the quickfilver 



is no longer vifible: then add 

 Of the ointment of marfhmallows and yellow digef- 



tive, commonly called bafilicon, each two ounces; 



and laftly, 



Of cantharides (or Spanifh flies,) three drachms; 

 Of corrofive mercury one drachm ; both in fine pow-, 

 der, mixing the whole well together. 



A portion of this to be carefully rubbed into 

 every part upon which the blifter is required 

 to take eiFed:, and the remainder to be laid on 

 as thick as judgment may didlate or the cafe 

 require, covering the whole widi a piece of 

 fheep or lamb-f]<:in leather, having a margin 

 fpread with flicking diachylon-, over this may 

 be placed any other convenient bandage, mak- 

 ing it firm, and ufing every precaution to 

 prevent its being ftripped oifby the horfe, fo 

 foon as its ftimulating powder makes him fenfi- 

 ble of his fit nation. 



The operation of firing is fo much the rage 

 at prefent (without a relative confideration to 



his 



