R E M ARKS. 415 



Take of corrofive fublimate and Roman vitriol, 

 of each one drachm ; 



Spirits of wine one ounce; 



Spring water half a gill. 



Let the fublimate and vitriol be reduced to a 

 very fine powder in a mortar; then add the 

 fpirits by fmali proportions ; and, laftly, the 

 water, keeping the whole clofely flopped for 

 ufe. 



To prevent defedls in the feet good ftabic 

 management is at all times necelTary, but more 

 particularly that kind of management diftindly 

 adapted to the foot of the horfej for every ex-? 

 perienced fportfman or judicious obferver muft 

 have perceived how very much the ftate of the 

 feet vary in different fubjedls ; the hoofs of fome 

 horfes being exceedingly hard and brittle^ 

 others equally foft and fpongy. It is v^orthy 

 obfervation that the feet of all horfes are sene- 

 rally managed in the fan:ie 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 

 hard footed horfe, but by no means with the 

 other, Horfes whofe hoofs are foft and fpongy, 



or 



