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actual cautery freely applied to each. When these- 

 •lough off, and the sores assume a healthy appearance, 

 less of the mercurial preparation will be required ; but 

 if these retain a livid and therefore unhealthy hue, ac- 

 companied with a poisonous discharge, that ulcerates 

 the adjacent parts, a thorough course of mercury is 

 the only remedy, and this must be managed with 

 caution. 



MERCURIAL BALL, No. l.—.^thiop's mineral, 2 drachms ;. 

 opium, 10 grains; liquorice powdtr and mucilage to form a ball 

 for one dose. 



(rive twice a day, until the patient's brealh smells very 

 offensive, aad ihen discontinue the medicine a day or 

 two, as you should also when the animal is found to 

 stale inordinately, or the bowels be very much disor- 

 dered. But when the bowels are only .^lightly affected, 

 increase the quantity of opium to twenty or thirty 

 grains. 



MERCURIAL BALL, No. 2. — Corrosive sublimate, 10 gi*ains^ 

 emetic tar tni-, and opivim, half a drachm each. 



Mix, with liquorice powder and mucilage sufRcient to 

 form the ball for one dose. Give as befoio night and 

 ■morning. 



Feed the patient generously durin^j the operation of 

 this strong medicine, watch its progress closely, and 

 lessen the quantity, or discontinue it al'ogcihcr for a day 

 or two when he is greatly agitated wiihin, pailictilaily 

 if a kind of sickness or gurglng be discernable, and 

 the horse is off his appetite. Let him be clothed com- 

 pletely. Mah mashss, boiled grain, and coarse sugar 

 mixed with his grain, dry, are good as.-istants to the 

 proper operation of the meinury. Turnips, carrots, 

 &c., are at war with its opeiation, and on that account 

 should not be used. 



ANTICOR, consists of an inHamed swelling near 

 the heart, and is caused by full feecHng without suffi- 

 cient exercise, similarly to this whole train of disor- 

 ders just treated of,— hard driving or riding, and a 

 subsequent exposure to the elements, or giving co'^ 

 water when overheated ; these combined, with a vitia- 

 ted state of th© blood, produce those extended swell- 



