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with equal parts of olive oil and creosote, and sprinkle 

 them with powdered charcoal. Furnish the horse witli 

 good feed to support the strength, and give sulpliate of iron 

 and gentian root, two drachms each, night and morning. 



Putrid Fever. — (See Typhosus.) 



Pyemia, — This is a term signifying pus in the blood, 

 acting and setting up fermentation. Examples: Tuber- 

 cles in the lungs, glanders, farcy, and grease. (All of 

 which see.) 



ftuack Medicines. — These are medicines prepared 

 according to private or secret receipts, and are puffed up 

 in newspapers, and private circulars, as infallible cures for 

 most all diseases which can be named, in either man or 

 beast ; either for external application, or internal adminis- 

 tration. No subject in medicine has been more fully 

 exposed than the great and absurd pretensions of these 

 medicines. But, notwithstanding all this, the credulity of 

 even the best class of society is great, the readiest victims 

 being found among them. It surely requires no argument 

 to show how dangerous must be the indiscriminate use of 

 powerful drugs when compounded by parties Avho likely 

 never had the slightest opportunity to acquire a medical 

 education, and why such persons cannot cure, by their 

 remedies, diseases Avhich are, or may be, deemed incurable, 

 and have defied the most consummate skill and experience 

 of the veterinary medical world. 



Quinsy. — A name given to sore throat. (See Dis- 

 temper and Influenza.) 



ftuittor. — This term is used in England for a disease in 

 the foot of a fistulous character. (See Foot Diseases.) 



