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Mix, and pour into the orifice hot, and close it with 

 stitches. The next two are generally preferred. 



Scalding Mixture, No. 2. — Con-osive sublimate, verdigris, and 

 blue vitriol, 2 drachms each ; green copperas, half an ounce ; honey 

 2 ounces ; oil turpentine ajid train oil, 8 ounces each ; rectified spi- 

 rits of wine, 4 ounces. 



No. 3. — Oil of turpentine, 2 ounces ; verdigris, 1 ounce ; Oint- 

 ment of yellow rosin, 6 ounces. 



Mix, and apply either, No. 1, 2, or 3, as before di- 

 rected. In using any of those hot mixtures, a piece of 

 tow should be placed so as to surround the orifice on 

 the outside to prevent its running over the sound parts ; 

 and care also taken to prevent the acrimonious dis- 

 charge from remaining any time on the sound parts, as 

 it will be found to corrode and cause ulcers. Let it 

 remain undisturbed for sixty hours, unless the stitches 

 burst sooner. Then sponge out the parts with warm 

 water, cleanse away all filth, and repeat the mixture or 

 proceed at OHce to the cure — a determination the doc- 

 tor will come to, according as the rottenness may have 

 sloughed oflT, and the inside of the abscess may present 

 a healthy appearance, or otherwise. If it be quite clean, 

 the adhesion of the parts will follow with very litile fur- 

 ther care than applying the digestive ointment according 

 to the preceding recipe, or the following 



Digestive Ointmejit, No. 2. — Common turpentine, 4 ounces; the 

 yolks of two eggs; mix these well, and add myrrh, in powder, 4 

 drachms ; mastich 2 drachms ; tincture of myrrh sufficient to bring 

 the whole to a proper consistence. 



Should the cure of the wound proceed too fast, the 

 over luxuriant granulations of new or proud flesh, must 

 be touched with caustic. 



But notwithstanding what has been said above, it 

 sometimes happens that a totally different course be- 

 comes necessary, when abscess in the poll is connected 

 with another disease arising from the same vitiated state 

 of the animal's system, and the remedy for one of these 

 will cure the other. Farcy is the correspondent disease 

 to which I allude, or rather I shall say a tendency to 

 farcy, visible in certain scanty limips or tumors on the 

 body and legs ; these will run off*, sometimes, by means 

 of a copious discharge at the poll. More frequently, 

 however, the farcy is of too inveterate a description, and 



