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CLASS IV. 



WOUNDS, ULCERS, FISTULA, 

 AND POLL EVIL. 



WOUNDS 



Are a fpecies of injury to which horfes are 

 not only perpetually liable, but of fo many 

 different kinds, and requiring fuch various 

 modes of treatment, (according to the caufe, 

 appearance, fituation, depth, and ftate of the 

 wound, or habit of the fubjeft) that, to enu- 

 merate the whole, with all poflible or probable 

 circumftances, would be to write a volume on 

 the article alone ^ which is certainly entitled 

 to every degree of attentio7i and inJiruBionj, 

 from the fimple and complex cafes that fo 

 frequently occur. And though it may natu- 

 rally be fuppofed that wounds of fize, depth, 

 ©r danger, muft confequently come under the 



immediate 



