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tice should be applied till it becomes ripe, when 

 it is to be opened, as before mentioned, with a 

 lancet, and healed with the Friar's balsam. 



A large hard swelling occasionally remains in 

 the middle of the channel, the effect of strangles, 

 cold, &c. Blister it, and if not lessened after 

 a month, repeat the blister, or rub in the dis- 

 cutient lotion. If the glands below the ears 

 remain hardened, treat them the same. 



CLASS V. 



FEVER 



is as common among horses as ourselves, and 

 the after effects of it equally debilitating. More 

 horses, I am inclined to believe, die from the 

 effects of fever than from attacks of any of the 

 acute inflammations ; and for this reason, the 

 danger is so often overlooked for the first three 

 or four days, until inflammation of the lungs 

 or bowels is approaching ; then death is too 

 near for bleeding or physic to be of any avail. 



