OF FARRIERY. 



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or filth remains upon the surface. Then rub 

 tenderly with a linen towel until dry, and, on the 

 following morning, begin to rub in a necessary 

 portion of the following ointment upon every 

 part affected, as the urgency of symptoms 

 may require, and repeat daily until you are 

 satisfied of the cure. 



Take Mercurial ointment (weak) 8 oz. 

 White hellebore, powdered 3 do 

 Olive oil, sufliicient to make it soft. 



Or, use the following, which I consider a more 

 convenient application. 



Take White hellebore, powdered 4 oz. 



Boil this in three pints of water until reduced 

 to one quart, then add 



Muriate of quicksilver - 2 drams. 



that has been previously dissolved in 



Muriatic acid - - 3 drams. 



This forms a lotion, and is to be applied to all 

 the affected parts with a small piece of sponge, 

 having first poured a portion of the lotion into 

 a saucer. This is a very efficacious remedy, 

 and I have known the disease perfectly cured 

 with three dressings ; but should not recom- 

 mend it until the Horse is sufficiently strong 

 to bear the application. 



Continue the use of the powders before 

 mentioned, with occasionally nitre in his water 

 (an ounce is sufficient at one time) for three 

 weeks or a month, and, so soon as it is con- 

 ceived by the Horse's condition, that he is in 

 a state to bear it, take away a moderate por- 

 tion of blood, say between two or three quarts ; 

 then give him afterwards two mild doses of 

 physic, selected from the prescriptions on that 

 article ; this will be found necessarj'^, and 

 renovating. 



The Horse, from his previously impoverished 



state, will be much restored by the following 

 Tonic medicine. 



Take Sulphate of iron - - - 12 drams 

 Gentian, powdered - - 12 do. 

 Ginger, do. - - 6 do. 



Form into a mass with honey, and divide into 

 six balls, and gire one every day : by these 

 means, you will strengthen the constitution, 

 and beat of that poverty-stricken appearance 

 he had previously laboured under. 



Now, with regard to the stable, and the 

 Horse's appointments, such as the saddle, 

 clothing, &c., harness, either gig or cart 

 should be well washed and cleaned with soft 

 soap and hot water ; his stable should be well 

 limed and white-washed, so that every 

 particle of the disease be totally eradicated ; 

 this and good keep will prevent a recurrence 

 of so disagreeable a disease. 



SURFEIT. 



Of surfeits there are two kinds, originating 

 from different causes ; one being no more than 

 an advanced stage of hidebound, or out of 

 condition, which, having been long neglected, 

 continues to increase, with all its concomitant 

 symptoms, till the blood becomes affected, 

 and Nature sets up this process to relieve her- 

 self, which soon displays itself upon the skin, 

 a degree of virulence, that forcibly appeals to 

 the sensations of the owner. 



The other kind of surfeit may be attributed 

 to drinking cold water. This kind of surfeit, 

 differing from the former in cause, but very 

 little in effect, is that kind, where, from 

 ignorance or inattention, a Horse is suf- 

 fered to drink immoderately of cold water, 

 when in a violent perspiration, and the blood, 

 consequently, in the highest degree of circu- 

 lation. 



