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V\arm apply copiously to the parts in a cloth. Support 

 the application by means of a bandage of stout linen 

 cloth, with ligatures tied over the forehead and across 

 the mane or neck of the horse in two directions. Some 

 persons recommend the use of a solution of gum to 

 render the cloth impervious to liquids. By those means 

 the swelling will come to a head, when apply the knife, 

 and the same day, let a mild laxative be given, and 

 lower his diet. 



MILD PURGATIVE— Aloes, 4 or 5 drachms; Castile soap, 

 3 drachms; Calomel, 1 drachm; Gmger, 2 drachms; Oil of Car- 

 rovvay, 10 drops. Mucillage enough for a ball, for one dose. 



When it so happens that the opening has been made 

 too soon, before it has accumulated suflTiciently, the ori- 

 fice may be kept open by means of a seaton passed 

 through it to the lowest side, and the running continued 

 several days, until it assumes a healthy appearance, and 

 the swelling subsides. This plan of applying a seaton 

 must always be adopted with the slow or sordid tumor, 

 which will not come forward with the poultice or blister 

 alone. Deep-seated abscess under the muscles of the 

 belly arc for want of timely attention, scarcely ever 

 discovered in time to prevent its bursting inside, and 

 killing the horse, although if it is discovered in time to 

 draw outward to be lanced, the horse will get well. — 

 See to it in time. The horse will flinch at the touch if 

 one be there. 



POLL EVIL.— Next to a diseased habit of body, 

 as just before noticed, which predisposes a certain des- 

 cription of horses to contract tumors in various parts of 

 the body, the poll-evil is frequently occasioned by a 

 blow, or gall, ©fa very trivial nature, if it do not come 

 on M'ithout this kind of excitement. The action of the 

 head is very great with some horses, arising probably 

 from an itching in the upper part of the clevical ligament, 

 where it is attached to the vertebrae of the neck ; and 

 this causing irritation, we need not hesitate long in ac- 

 counting for the inflammation that affects the muscle 

 which interposes between it and the poll-bone, in a ca- 

 vity that is greater with some breeds of horses than 

 others. 



