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THE MODERN SYSTEM 



membrane of the nose should become at all 

 ulcerated, or the membranes lining the bones 

 of the head, secrete and discharge a disagree- 

 able matter, the chances are one hundred to 

 one of your succeeding in a cure. However, 

 I have always treated it as a constitutional 

 affection, not trusting in the term local or 

 otherwise. 



If the Horse should be in tolerable condi- 

 tion, I should immediately bleed, according to 

 strength, size, &c., and give the following : 



Take Cape aloes - - 8 drams. 

 Ginger - - - - 1 do. 

 Form into a ball with soft soap. 



And treat as directed in administering doses of 

 physic. Should you perceive tlip fucy buds 

 diminish at all, or even no increase take place in 

 those which are formed, give a second dose of 

 medicine, and treat as before Your next thinff 

 is to lay the farcy buds open ; these you will 

 find principally on the inside of the hind leg, 

 frequently down the neck, in the line of the 

 jugular vein, along the back, and frequently 

 on the face. This last, whenever I found 

 them, the cure was always doubtful. Some 

 persons open the buds with a lancet, and 

 apply the actual cautery, to destroy at once 

 by fire what we imagine cannot be done any 

 other way : but I object to this mode of 

 treatment myself, as I have seen much more 

 good done by other means. First, open all 

 the abscesses with a lancet, after squeezing 

 out the matter, which you must be exceed- 

 ingly careful in doing, for the pain the Horse 

 experiences will make him very fidgetty, but 

 sometimes attended with sfreat dan2:er. After 

 you have cleaned away all the matter from 

 the sores, apply a little sulphate of zinc to 

 each of the opened buds. This application 



will be found highly beneficial on first opening 

 the buds : if you should have done this in the 

 morning, repeat it again at night ; then on the 

 morrow, wash the sores well with the follow- 

 ing lotion. 



Take Extract of Saturn - - - 2 oz. 

 Spirits of wine, camphorated 8 do. 

 White wine vinegar - - 1 pint. 



Mix well together, and keep close stopped for 

 use ; then 



Take Prepared antimony - - I lb. 

 Sulphur - - - - - -12 oz. 



Cream of tartar - - - 8 do. 



Incorporate well in a mortar, and divide into 

 twenty equal parts, giving one every night in 

 the corn, first sprinkling with water to insure 

 the adhesion of the powders. This pr > ortion 

 is meant for the distemper in its mildest state, 

 when the buds make their first appearance. 



Shoidd the distemper be in a more advanced 

 stage, bleeding should be repeated, in a proper 

 time and in a moderate degree ; and upon the 

 scabs or eschars peeling from the buds, wash 

 them well, occasionally, with the following: 



Take Corrosive sublimate - - 2 drams. 



British brandy - - - i pint. 



White wine vinegar - 1 do. 



Tinct. myrrh and aloes - 2 oz. 



Water ----- |- pint. 



First dissolve the sublimate in the brandy, 

 then add the other articles, and shake well 

 together : or. 



Take Sugar of lead - 1 oz. 



Sulphate of zinc - - 1 do. 



White wine vinegar - 1 pint. 

 Water ----- h do. 

 Mix together. 



