152 FIRING. 



soon as the blister has ceased to run, let him be 

 turned out to grass for three weeks or a month, 

 until the scurf comes off, when he may be fetched 

 home, and the following blistering charge may be 

 applied over the part. 



(RECIPE, No. 114.) 

 A Blistering Charge. 



Take — Burgundy pitch, and black pitch, of each half 



a pound ; 

 Oxycroccum plaster, four ounces ; 

 Mercurial plaster, two ounces ; 

 Melt them all together : then add, blistering 



ointment (No. 113. p. 151), two ounces : 

 Mix, and stir them well together. 



This bhstering charge must be spread all over 

 the part affected whilst new-milk-warm ; and a 

 piece of flannel should be applied over the part 

 whilst the charge is warm, and sewed on the fore 

 part of the leg. The blistering ointment being 

 applied first, and the charge at proper intervals, 

 will remove all obstinate calluses, or lumps, either 

 before firing, or after, though of ever so long 

 standing. But if the horse is fired, merely for the 

 purpose of strengthening and bracing the sinews, 

 or joints, it will not require the above treatment. 



The following strengthening charge will be 



