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it must be dressed once a day with equal parts of 

 egyptiacum, and tincture of myrrh, mixed toge- 

 ther ; the wound should be anointed both within 

 and on the outside, with a feather dipped in the 

 mixture ; afterwards let burnt alum, mixed with 

 bole armenic, be strewed over it, which will soon 

 heal it. 



CHAP. XIV. 



SURFEITS AND HIDEBOUND. 



Surfeits in horses proceed from various causes, 

 and are chiefly owing to some long-continued disease 

 that has been badly cured, or neglected. 



A horse is said to be surfeited when his coat 

 stares, is of a dirty rusty colour, and tlie skin full 

 of scabs and scurf, which if rubbed off return 

 again. Others have small lumps, like beans or 

 peas, which are frequently occasioned by the horse 

 drinking largely of cold water when the body has 

 been unusually warm. Bleeding, or a gentle purge, 

 will be found to remove, and effectually cure, this 

 kind of surfeit. Some have scabs all over their 

 limbs and bodies, sometimes moist and sometimes 

 dry, attended with heat and so much irritation, that 

 they chafe themselves raw in many places. Others 



