300 G L A N D E R S. 



fuppuration, if fo, they will increafe in fize, 

 becoming pliable or foft to preffure in the 

 middle ^ in which cafe apply the poultice, and 

 proceed as direcSled in the Strangles, p. 281. 

 On the contrary, fnould the fwellings con- 

 tinue hard and immoveable, a running coming 

 on at the nofe, let notice be taken whether the 

 matter is of a kind, white, healthy appearance, 

 without ftnell, and difcoloured; or bearing 

 different tinges, and ftreaked with blood; if 

 the former, it is favourable, and the complaint 

 may be firft treated as direcTted under rhe 

 articles of cold and cough, p. 200 ; but iliould 

 it prove of the laft defcription, care iliould be 

 talcen to afcertain the fa(?L, that every precau- 

 tion may be ufed in its infancy, to prevent 

 what may foon become a cafe of trouble and 

 difquietude. At any rate the following plan 

 fliould be adopted without delay : 



Take rofemary, lavender fiowcrs, fouthernwood 2nd 

 marjoram, of each 'a handful ; boil In two or three 

 quarts of water ; and, putting into a pail, let the 

 horfc's head be fixed over it as near as poffiblc, 

 fo long as the fumes pafling up the noflrils 

 can be fuppofcd to take effe^ as an internal fomen- 

 tation. 



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