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Take of corrofive fublimate and Roman vitriol, of 

 each one drachra j 



Spirits of wine one ounce 5 



Spring water half a gill. 



Let the fublimate and vitriol be reduced to 2 



very fine powder in a mortar ; then add the 



fpirits by fmall proportions ; and, laftly, the 



water, keeping the whole clofely flopped fo' 



Ufed 



To prevent defers In the feet, good flable 

 management is at all times neceffary, but more 

 particularly that kind of management diftindtly 

 adapted to the foot of the horfe ; for every ex- 

 perienced fportfman or judicious obferver mufl 

 have perceived how very much the frate of the 

 feet vary in different fubjeds ; the hoofs of fome 

 horfes being exceedingly hard and brittle^ 

 others equally foft and fpongy. It is worthv 

 obfervation that the feet of all horfes are gene- 

 rally managed in the fame way, without revert- 

 ing to this material confideration; that is, by 

 flopping the bottom and oiling the hoof ; a 

 mode of treatment exceedingly proper with the 

 kard-footed horfe, but by no means with the 

 other. Horfes whofe hoofs are foft and fpongy^ 



or, 



