J92 S I T F A S T. 



(very finely powdered), mafl: be occafionally 

 fprinkled over, the excrefcences, but not with 

 the ufual hand of indifcretion, otherwife your 

 eorrofive in that cafe becomes zcaujlic -y a cal- 

 lofity is confequently occafioned, and your im- 

 prudent and mifapplied remedy becomes worfe; 

 than the difeafe. 



A S I T F A S T 



Is the Integument or hide of a horfe be- 

 come entirely callous or infenfible, afier the 

 tumour called a warble is repelled and 

 taken up into the circulation, or has tranf- 

 pired in a natural evacuation, or circular ooz- 

 ing, furrounding the callofity termed a sit- 

 FAST. In fome little time the hair comes off, 

 and it bears the appearance of a foreign folid 

 fubftance, fixed in the centre of what feems to 

 be a fuperficial wound. For this fimple and 

 very trifling complaint there is but one cer- 

 tain and expeditious cure. All applications, 

 to foften the efchar will prove of no utility, 

 fcarifications v.'ill be tedious, and often inef- 



feduali 



