6o SPAVINS. 



** Firft clip the hair from the difeafed part; 

 *' make feveral punftures on the fame, through 

 *^ the fkin, with a fharp-pointed inftrument : 

 *' make a longitudinal incifion through the 

 ** jfkin, above the difeafed part, about the 

 *^ middle thereof: there introduce a cornet, 

 " and dilate the fkin with it as far as the 

 *' fwelling reaches. Make another fmaller 

 " longitudinal incifion, through the fkin, be- 

 ** low the fwelled part, direiftly oppofite to 

 ** the wound above : in doing which, your 

 *^ probe introduced at top will diredt you. — 

 ** At the fuperior wound a cauftic wrapped 

 *^ up in a piece of lint is to be introduced, 

 '^ and there left. The cauflic diffolved is 

 ** carried off by the inferior wound, the 

 ** whole is diredly to be covered with a warm 

 ** adhefive charge, and this is the whole of 

 " the operation.— -The cauftic thus introduced 

 *' under the fkin ads both ways, namely, on 

 *' the membrane underneath it, and the outer 

 ** tegument upon it. Thus the membrane, 

 *' outer tegument, and the charge, throw 

 ** themfelves off together, and the difeafed or 

 '^ fwelled part becomes fair and fmooth. The 

 '* horfe fhould be turned out, or kept in a 

 [^ loofe ftablej and if the charge comes off 



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