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able effect ; two or three quarts daily will be found benefi- 

 cial. The animal should be kept warm and in a house ; the 

 food to consist of pollard mashes, draff, warm gruel, and hay. 

 At this stage of the malady a puffing up of the hide, or 

 abscesses filled with wind, and a thin acrid matter which 

 evolves foul gas, make their appearance. This is an attempt 

 of nature to throw off the disease. These may appear on 

 any part of the body, and must be discharged by making 

 an incision in the hide the full length of the puffy part. 

 Into these must be inserted a small piece of damp sponge, 

 to absorb all the putrid matter, and immediately afterwards 

 the cavity must be filled with pledgets of tow dipped in 

 the following ointment. The materials to be well rubbed 

 up together. 



Tar ointment . . 3 ounces, 



Eose-water . . 1 ounce. 



Tincture of myrrh . 1 ounce, 



Nitre, finely powdered . ^ ounce. 

 This condition of the complaint is almost always accom- 

 panied by coldness of the body, and an almost total insen- 

 sibility of the skin. The inside of the mouth presents an 

 unusually soft, hanging appearance, with a discharge of a 

 serous matter from it, as well as from the nostrils, which 

 has a very foetid smell ; the eyes are dull and heavy ; the 

 breath and dung have a most offensive odour ; all of which 

 strongly indicate the approach of mortification. This must 

 be arrested by the following medicine, which must be given 

 every twelve hours, until a change of the above symptoms 

 has taken place. The following recipe is the quantity for 

 a single dose. When Peruvian bark cannot be obtained, or 

 may be deemed too expensive, powdered willow bark may 

 be substituted for it, but double the quantity will be re- 

 quired. 



