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rigid efchars, or painful callofitiesy I fhall com- 

 municate, and earneftly recommend, a fcifcy 

 Jimple and effeBua I my.tuot> of cure, which 

 I have never yet feen once fail in an experi- 

 ence of twenty years. 



In every twenty-four hours, but more par- 

 ticularly at each time of the horfe*s returning 

 from the road or exercife, let the cracks or 

 SCRATCHES be wailied for a coniiderable time 

 withfoap and war?n water y making a lather, 

 and continuing to rub them tenderly v^ith the 

 fudsy till they become pliable, and perfed;Iy 

 clear from every degree of fcurf, or hardnefs 

 at the edges, and the ftiffened mucus, or ooz- 

 ing, is entirely w^alhed away ; then wipe very 

 dry with a linen cloth, and when perfed:ly fo, 

 rub in a fufficient quantity of camphorated 

 fpermaceti ointme7it : there is no doubt but they 

 will foon fubmit to this fimple treatment, if 

 regularly perfevered in. On the ccntrarj^, if 

 in fome days after this method has been 

 adopted, you perceive the cracks to be deep, 

 the difcharge copious, and the fmell foetid or 

 fti-nking, you may naturally conclude there is 

 a foulnefs in the habit, or an acrimony in the 

 blood, requiring redification \ in that cafe con- 

 tinue 



