270 THE CONDITION OF HUNTERS 



enabling the effused inflammatory products to estab- 

 lish a fresh bond of union in the meantime. 



The most useful blistering agent is cantharides 

 (Indian blister beetle or Spanish-fly), either as an 

 ointment or as a liniment. 



Mercurial compounds are largely employed or a 

 combination of these and the foregoing. Iodine 

 ointment will thus blister and is particularly valuable, 

 where a joint is at all " puffy " as in bog-spavin, etc. 

 The addition of an equal quantity of common tar 

 greatly enhances its value for such purposes. 



Before the application of a blister, the hair ought to 

 be clipped off, the part washed with soft soap and 

 warm water, and then thoroughly dried. Rub the 

 blister into the skin for twenty minutes, employing 

 smart friction. 



To prevent the blistering agent from scarring the 

 parts below, smear the latter freely with vaseUne. 



The animal must now be tied up for twenty-four 

 hours, or else a cradle used. 



In the course of three or four days smear the 

 blistered area with vaseline or some oleaginous 

 preparation. 



BLINDNESS. 



Here comes another of the curses on good horse- 

 flesh. " Although the diseases to which the eye of 

 the domesticated horse is obnoxious," says Mr W. 

 Percivall, " when compared in number with the many 

 set down by opthalmic writers to the organ in man, are 

 certainly very few, yet there is one among them that 



