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THE MODERN SYSTEM 



knife. In many cases you will be obliged to 

 have the Horse cast ; some warts are situated 

 in such places, that you would not have an 

 opportunity of properly getting at it, without 

 incurring considerable danger. If it be your 

 intention to remove them by ligature, 



Take Arsenic 



1 dram. 



Hog's lard - 8 do. 



Mix, and apply to that part of the ligature 

 embracing the wart, once a day ; or you may 

 apply, in the same manner, butter of antimony, 

 anointing the part with the feather-end of a 

 pen. But, the most effectual manner, and the 

 one I have always ui>ed with success, has 

 been to remove them with the knife ; and im- 

 mediately, but slightly, cauterize the part. 

 This I have found to answer better than any 

 other application. 



HIDE-BOUND. 



This is a subject that has hitherto been very 

 little treated of; and, by no means, at all sa- 

 tisfactorily. It has been attributed to many 

 causes ; but, from observations I have been 

 able to make, I must confine it to few. The 

 signs of hide-bound, are, as its name would 

 express, a want of flexibility of the skin, which 

 is pervaded by a general stiffness, that seems 

 to form an entire adhesion to the flesh, with- 

 out the least partial separation or distinction. 

 There is a kind of dusty scurf, plainly per- 

 ceived underneath the hair, that raises it up 

 in different parts, and, giving it another hue, 

 the coat, in many places, forms an appearance 

 of two or three colours, shewing at once the 

 insensible perspiration, which should be always 

 going on, is either retarded, or wholly stopped, 

 either by some internal cause, or forcibly 

 shewing that poverty is no stranger here. 



The Horse is generally languid, dull, heavy, 

 and weak ; his excrement is dark, foul, and 

 very offensive. He sweats much upon every 

 moderate exertion ; then his coat stares, the 

 hair turns different ways, the effluvia of 

 \\hich is highly disagreeable, and affords evi- 

 dent proof of weakness and debility. 



The probable cause at once shews itself; 

 such as bad food, and want of the proper care 

 the Horse requires in the stable. These are the 

 principal causes that can be assigned for this 

 complaint or defect ; still there are others, all 

 centering in poverty ; such as long lank grass, 

 in low swampy land in the autumn, and 

 musty hay, or bad oats, at any season, which 

 may in some degree allay the hunger, but not 

 gratify the appetite ; for being in itself desti- 

 tute of the effect and quality of superior food, 

 no nutritive contribution can be conveyed for 

 the generating blood, or rousing the system. 



The sources for the supply of chyle beins: 

 thus obstructed, the lymphatics are deprived 

 of their due proportion of nutritive fluid that 

 should pass through these smaller vessels, and 

 they become, not only in some measure con- 

 tracted, but in a great degree inactive, in 

 consequence of wanting their natural stimulus, 

 chyle ; which, with the want of external care 

 and dressing, contribute to an almost universal 

 obstruction of the cutaneous pores. These, 

 from the preternatural debility of the general 

 system, are compulsively throvvn open upon 

 the most moderate exercise, when a Horse 

 that is, from excellent food, care, and attention, 

 or in what is termed good condition, will not 

 display the least moisture upon his skin, even 

 in undergoing a much greater fatigue. 



Thus much has been said to prove its exist- 

 ence as an original complaint, probably caused 

 by these means, when abstracted from its con- 



