260 TREATMENT OF DISEASES. 



finely-powdered blue-stone, and half a one of 

 alum, all mixed, will frequently dry them up. 

 As a preventative for the ensuing monsoon, I 

 should recommend the same treatment to be 

 commenced with on the 1st of May, and carried 

 on to the 1st of July, but not increasing to the 

 eight grains of cantharides, unless some symp- 

 toms of breaking out again show themselves, 

 in which case you may gradually go up to ten 

 grains. The cure, of course, consists in eradi- 

 cating all tendency to the disease from the con- 

 stitution, as the sores would generally heal of 

 themselves by October or November. Many 

 persons are advocates for the application of the 

 hot iron, or the caustic madar, to the sores, 

 and giving large doses, internally, of blue vi- 

 triol in solution. It is not for me to say any- 

 thing against this treatment in severe cases 

 to those who understand how to use these re- 

 medies^ but there is no more analogy between 

 bursantee and farcy than there is between a 

 common cold and glanders. 



