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take a paint-brush (such as is in general called a 

 sash-tool) ; the hair must be soft and fine, the 

 shaft or handle must be small and long ; varnish 

 brushes may occasionally be met with that will 

 suit this purpose much better than the former. 

 These may, in general, be procured of the drug- 

 gists, or stationers, in most large towns. Let a 

 sufficient quantity of this ointment be put into a 

 gallipot, and set near the fire, that it may liquefy; 

 then take your brush, and dip it in the melted 

 ointment, and pass it gently up one of his nostrils, 

 and with a steady hand work it easily about. This 

 may be done once a day, or three times a week. 

 If the horse be in high condition, bleeding and 

 Towelling will be serviceable ; but if poor, the con- 

 trary. Blistering will also be necessary in this 

 disease : first clip off the hair from the kernels, 

 which are under the throat, or, more properly 

 speaking, upon the glands betwixt the jaw-bones ; 

 then apply a strong blister on the swelled part, 

 which must be repeated every morning for a week ; 

 afterwards rub the kernels with a small quantity 

 of the above nitrated ointment once a day for a 

 month, or six weeks. 



This will greatly relieve the glands of that in- 

 flammatory tumour with which they , are affected. 

 M. La Fosse, farrier to the king of France, has 



