l|g TUMORS. 



(RECIPE, No. 138.) 



Take— Linseed oil, and oil of turpentine, each six 



ounces ; 

 Barbadoes tar, one ounce ; 

 Oil of vitriol, half an ounce : 

 Mix them together, and put into a bottle for 



use. 



This mixture may be well rubbed on, once or 

 twice a day ; and if on a part where a bandage 

 can be applied, it will be adviseable to employ 

 one. When the extravasated blood cannot be 

 dispersed, the best way is to open the skin and let 

 out the grumes, which may then be dressed with 

 the digestive ointment (No. 121, p. 159), or the 

 digestive oils (No. 119, p. I57)j in the same man^ 

 ner as there directed. 



When critical tumors, or swellings, arise from 

 internal causes, such as fevers, &c. they must not 

 be dispersed, except they fall on the lower limbs, 

 as the pastern, or the coffin-joint, so that the horse 

 is in danger of being foundered. In this case it 

 will be proper to give him one or two doses of 

 physic; and to foment the part with (No. 109» 

 p. 147) twice a day; afterwards rub in the above 

 mixture (No. 138, supra), and bandage the part 

 with a flannel roller ; by this method the joint will 



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