4o6 ADDITIONAL 



negled of ferv^ants will, by thefe means, be 

 more particularly counterafted. 



No juft cauf^ can be affigned by the moft 

 obftinate why the heels fliould not be kept 

 equally clean with the carcafs ; it is a mode of 

 condudt univerfally adopted with horfes of a 

 fuperior clafs, andreafon juftifies the affertion — 

 that it is as abfolutely proper and conducive to 

 health with the one as the other. In addition to 

 this prec;iution, there is another equally necef- 

 fary upon the leaft appearance oi cracky fcratchy 

 or eruption ; the parts iliould be immediately 

 wajfhed well with a fubftantial lather of foap 

 and foft water, then wiped dry, and managed 

 as directed, p. 93, affifling with a courfe of 

 DIURETIC BALLS, felefed from the index ^ 

 for which purpofe no medicine can be more 

 admirably adapted, as they generally ftimulate and 

 gradually promote the fecretions, carrying off, 

 by the mildnefs of their operation, thofe Aug- 

 gifh vifcidities that found the origin of difeafe. 

 it is alfo a circumftance of material confolation 

 to the owner, that, during tliis courfe, the 

 horfe is perfectly adequate to his ordinary 

 employment, free from the reftraint he muil 



be 



