302 GLANDERS. 



If the matter bears all thofe appearances of 

 malignancy that threaten a Corrofion and rot- 

 tennefs of the bones, continue inceffant in the 

 ufe of both fumigation and injedion, putting 

 the horfe immediately upon a mild courfe of 

 undion in the following way : Let two, or at 

 moft three, drachms of the ftrong mercurial 

 ointjnent be very well rubbed into the glandu- 

 lar tumours, under the throat or ears, every 

 night for a fortnight ; firft taking away with 

 the fciffars all luperfluous or long hairs, that the 

 mercurial particles may be with more certainty 

 abforbed by the veflels, and taken into the cir- 

 culation. If the owner of a horfe labouring 

 under this difficulty wifhes, like a drowning 

 man, to avail himfelf of another twig, he 

 may call in the aid of mercurial phyfic, or al- 

 terative medicines > from a variety of which 

 choice may be made by referring to the indey, 

 and making exarnination under thcfe heads -, 

 an exad repetition of the numerous prefcrip- 

 tions being evidently unnecclTary where fo 

 little can be expected from their efteds. 



Opinions have ever been different refpeding 

 this difeafe being communicated by infedion ; 

 and though feme have afe^ied to cppofe 



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