OF FARRIERY. 



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tliem be ever so deep, go to the bottom of 

 them. Dress your setons with miid blister 

 ointment, as under, every day : 



Take Cantharides, powdered 2 drams. 

 Hog's lard - - - - 3 oz. 



Continue this until the matter becomes of a 

 good consistence. But where cases of great 

 obstinacy occur, and this also fails to produce 

 a good effect, ypu must at once make up your 

 mind to make use of stronger means : 



Take Corrosive sublimate - 2 drams. 

 Water ----- 2 oz. 



Dissolve the sublimate in the water, and nject 

 the sinuses with the mixture, if this does 

 not produce any amendment, we must proceed 

 to the scalding means, in order to overcome 

 the morbid action, and by which means pro- 

 duce a healthy inflammation, from which, 

 healtliy granulations may follow ; to obtain 

 which, try either of the following : 



No. 1. 



Take Arsenic, finely powdered - 2 drams. 

 Digestive ointment - - - 4 oz. 



1-^ drams. 

 4 oz. 



No. 2. 



Corrosive sublimate 

 Digestive ointment 



No. 3. 



Butter of antimony - - 3 drams. 

 Oil of turpentine - - 2 oz. 



Either of the above may be applied in the 

 following manner : melt either of them in an 

 iron ladle to a scalding heat, and as your 

 Horse lays on the ground (for you must cast 

 him to do this properly), carefully pour the 

 ii<^uid into the wound, putting in, at tli<' 



same time, a little tow. At the end of four or 

 five days, sloughing will commence; after 

 which, apply digestive ointment, and treat as 

 a common wound : if the wound sho Id not 

 be going on to your mind, apply the seal ing 

 application again. 



FISTULOUS WITHERS. 



Fistula is in general the consequence of 

 neglect, or the non- observation as to how the 

 saddle may fit ; for, when the saddle is too 

 wide in the trees, the pressure, in consequence, 

 coming on the withers with double force, and 

 that repeatedly, that the parts become bruised 

 and pinched, and occasions the formation of 

 matter inevitable. I am very sorry to observe, 

 this is seldom taken notice of in time, till the 

 evil has been repeated, and constitutes bruise 

 upon bruise, when an inflammation and 

 swelling ensue, threatening an unavoidable 

 suppuration. To this greater error succeeds ; 

 for during the time the process of nature is 

 going on, and the matter in the tumour is 

 forming, we generally use the repellent lotion, 

 as prescribed for pole evil. But here begins 

 a terrible struggle between the contending 

 powers of nature and art ; for those applica- 

 tions failing in their intentional effects of 

 repulsion upon the contents, distribute their 

 properties upon the integuments, where, by 

 their repealed application, an induration L» 

 effected very unfavourable to the abscess in 

 its more advanced state. Nature at last be- 

 comes predominant, and effects her purpose ; 

 the tumour suppurates, and, as a consequence, 

 discharge conies on, but without one of those 

 advantages that would have been acquired 

 had the efforts of nature been attended to and 

 I properly encouraged, instead of being opposed. 

 This is the origin and progress of what 



