OF FARRIERY. 



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more than ten to one, but his hand becomes 

 severely bhstered. But to our subject : after 

 examining the tumour, and being satisfied as 

 to the nature of it, you next proceed to the 

 cure. If it should be the kind of tumour con- 

 taining fluid, take your seton scissors, then 

 taking up the skin in the most dependent 

 part, make an orifice, and let out the fluid ; 

 and, further insert your finger, as if preparing 

 to place in a tent, which do with tow, smeared 

 all over with digestive ointment, as follows : 



No. 1. 



Take Sulphate of copper, finely powdered 1 dr. 

 Common turpentine - - - - 2 oz. 

 Hos's lard ------- 4 do. 



Melt the turpentine and the lard together, 

 and when nearly cold, sprinkle in the sulphate 

 of copper. 



Or, No. 2. 

 Take Red precipitate - - - - 4 drams. 

 Common digestive ointment* 4 oz. 



This will promote a healthy discharge, if the 

 first does not: keep this open for a week or 



* What is meant by the common digestive ciotmcnt, is, 

 the turpentine and hog's lard alone. 



nine days. If the parts should swell much, 

 foment three or four times a day, with flannels 

 dipped in hot water, until you see the swellino- 

 abate. 



The hard kind of tumour you must treat in 

 another way, and the only way it can be, to 

 be effectual, that is, at once make an incision 

 down the middle of the tumour, and disect it 

 completely out, then insert a plegit of tow, 

 smeared with the first named digestive oint- 

 ment, No. 1. and sew up the wound until within 

 an inch and a half of the bottom, which must 

 be kept open during the suppurative process ; 

 when that is ended, dress as a common 

 wound, with compound tincture of myrrh, 



THE KNEE. 



Sometimes enlargements on the knee take 

 place, but they are of little consequence^ 

 though I was once called to a Horse thus 

 affected ; the tumour was about tiie size of 

 half a walnut ; I immediately punctured it with 

 a very small abscess lancet, squeezed the 

 matter out, blistered the part, and ordered the 

 Horse to be turned out: in a month, he came 

 up, and no person could discover the place, 

 that either the puncture or blister had been 

 made. The Horse was the property of a 

 dealer, and of great value. 



