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(very finely powdered), rnufl be occafionally 

 fprinkled over the excrefcence, but not with 

 the ufual hand of indifcretion, otherwife your 

 corrofive in that cafe becomes a caiijlic-y acal- 

 lofity is confequently occafioned, and your im- 

 prudent and mifapplied remedy becomes worfe 

 than the difeaf^. 



S I T F A S r 



Is the Integument or hide of a horfe be- 

 come entirely callous or infeniible, after the 

 tumour called a v/Arble is repelled and 

 taken up into the circulation, or has tran- 

 fpired in a natural evacuation or circular ooz- 

 ing, furrounding the callofity termed a sit- 

 fast. In fome little time the hair comes off, 

 and it bears the appearance of a foreign folid 

 fubflance, fixed in the centre of what feems to 

 be a fuperficial wound. For this fimple and 

 very trifling complaint there is but one cer- 

 tain and expeditious cure. All applications to 

 foften the efchar will prove of no utility ; 

 Jcar'ifications will be tedious,, and often inef- 



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