THE FARCY. '67 



be discharged with a lancet, and the wound dressed 

 with a skewer dipped in a little butter of anti- 

 mony ; and afterwards, with a tent made of lint, 

 or tow, dipped in the digestive oils, or ointment, 

 used for green wounds. The smaller the tent is, 

 the more oils or ointment it carries into the wound ; 

 which should never be dressed with tents longer 

 than while the tumour is subsiding, otherwise it 

 may impede the cure. 



There are diseases, of the extremities, appa- 

 rently not arising from the infection of a glandered 

 or farcied horse ; but from some inactivity of these 

 lymphatic vessels, caused by fulness or grossness 

 of habit, &c. that very much resemble farcy, ex- 

 cept that there are no malignant ulcers present. 

 I have readily cured these swellings of the extremi- 

 ties, by giving the mercurial ball (No. 27, p. 58), 

 and working it off with the following purging and 

 diuretic drink. 



(RECIPE, No. 42.) 



A Purging Drink. 



Take — Barbadoes aloes, seven drachms ; 

 Cream of tartar, one ounce ; 

 Ginger, nitre, and aniseed, of each half an 



ounce, in powder : 

 Dissolve, and give them in a pint and a half 

 of warm ale. 

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