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abscess. When the abscess or evil is very deep, reach" 

 ing to the bone, which may be felt, the matter shouUl be 

 expelled by pressing gently on two sides of it at once. 

 Let the lips of the opening be dressed the first time, and 

 as long as it may be found necessary to keep the wound 

 open, with any ointment hereafter mentioned, on 

 which has been strewed sulphate of cop[}er powdered. 

 Should (he lips adhere together, or appear much diseas- 

 ed, wash them wiih muriate of ammonia, taking care it 

 does not run upon the sound parts, nor into the cavity. 

 In either case wash off the dead parts with warm water, 

 before each dressing, sponge it clean and dry, after in- 

 serting the probe on every side into the fistulous sinuses, 

 and continue this treatment until the parts assume a 

 healthy appearance. 



The seton shou'd never be neglected in bad cases of 

 either description, but be introduced at the lowest or 

 most depending side of the abscess, after being wetted 

 with the following 



IRRITATING MIXTURE.— Spirits of wine, 2 ounces; Corro- 

 sive sublimate, 1 scruple. Mix, and saturate the tape in it daily. 



This will keep the orifice open until the offensive mat- 

 ter run off, and is succeeded by the more healthy issue 

 of a thicker consistency, and nearly white. On this 

 appearance, the sf^aton is to be withdrawn, and the parts 

 dressed with the digestive ointment, the animal physiced 

 once or twice with a moderate purging- ball of six or 

 seven drachms of aloes, and the cure will complete it- 

 self with the usual dressing in a substantial manner. 



DIGESTIVE OINTMENT, No. 1.— Yellow wax, rosin, Bur- 

 gundy pitch, of each 1 pound ; turpentine, 4 ounces ; linseed oil, 20 

 ounces. Dissolve over a slow fire. 



Spread it upon leather or stout linen cloth, sufficiently 

 large to come over on the undiseased region of the evil, 

 after the wound has been well cleansed. Fresh dress- 

 ings hereof should go on daily, but in no case until the 

 matter assumes a healthy appearance, which it never 

 can do, unless the whole recess has been reached with 

 the knife, or by the operation of the " scalding mixture" 

 below. There are three recipes recommended by dif- 

 ferent farriers of note. 



Scalding Mixture, No. 1 . — Tar, mutton suet, rosin, of each twa 

 ounces ; bees-wax, 1 ounce ; melt slowly ojid mix in spirits of tur* 

 pentine, 2 ounces; verdigris, 6 drachms 



