OF FARRIERY. 



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injnry and certain lameness ; for by over- 

 straining their elastic quality, small as it is, 

 rupture is the consequence, and lameness in 

 proportion to the injury sustained. 



To render this idea as clear as I possibly 

 can, and that it cannot be misunderstood 

 even by the merest tyro in Horse knowledge, 

 let us suppose that a Horse is going at his 

 best pace on the trot, and in so doing his 

 toe covers a prominence, or the edge of one, 

 where the heel has no support, the conse- 

 quence is, an extension of the tendons, or a 

 rupture of the same ; by which means destroy- 

 ing- part of Nature's work, and constitutes 

 what is termed, letting down of the back 

 sinews; a circumstance which frequently hap- 

 pens on the turf, and the Horse is then said to 

 be " broken down." 



This being supposed to have happened, the 

 principal indication of cure will immediately 

 strike every reader, so far as the gradual con- 

 traction and tone ofthe tendon is concerned ; but 

 the previous and instantaneous consideration, 

 will be to prevent as much as possible, any conse- 

 quent inflammation that may fall upon the parts. 



To which end take away, so soon as con- 

 venient after the injury is sustained, a portion 

 of blood adequate to the state and strength of 

 the subject, from a vein as contiguous to the 

 part affected as may be consistent ; and as 

 your success will in a great degree depend 

 upon the earliest applications — 



Take Vinegar - - 1 quart. 



Make this hot ; whicli havmg done, add extract 

 of Saturn, one ounce : foment the leg with this 

 until it is exhausted, say for two or three times 

 a day ; and after each fomentation bandage the 

 leg well and firm, with a woollen bandage. Give 

 bran mashes for a day or two, and the following : 



7'ake Cape aloes 



Juniper berries 



2 drams. 

 1 do. 



„ — I — ^ , 



F m into a ball with soft soap 



Give one every other night. 



After fomenting with the above for two days, 

 use the following embrocation ; let two or 

 three table-spoonsful be gently and gradually 

 rubbed into the affected part, every night and 

 morning, always remembering to use the 

 bandage tolerably tight and firm — 



XIMMENT FOR STRAINS. 



1 ake Barbadoes tar - 2 ounces. 



Spirits of turpentine - 2 do. 

 Opodeldoc - - 4 do. 



Mjx well together, and keep well stopped for 

 use. 



To this application must be added rest. Too 

 much stress cannot be laid upon this most 

 predominant and necessary article, from which 

 the greatest good must certainly result. To 

 the want of patience and mercy only, it is to 

 be attributed, that such an infinite number of 

 fine Horses have been considerably blemished, 

 instead of being indulged with proper time in 

 the field, or the luxury of a loose box ; by this 

 means an excellent Horse would have been 

 saved from the scoring of his legs with the 

 liot iron. 



And what is no less astonishing that, in the 

 present age of equestrian sagacity and pene- 

 tration, few can be found, whose reason will 

 sufficiently demonstrate the absolute necessity 

 of time and rest, to restore the tone of a re- 

 laxed muscle or tendon ; a system of know- 

 ledge, as clear as any mechanical principle 

 that can be produced. 



When the Horse has continued in the stable, 

 under the treatment before mentioned, for ai 



