FOOT-ROT. 583 



HO II. — STRONGER RECIPE. 



Yerdigrise, powdered . . 1 ounce, 

 ^'itrous acid . . .2 ounces, 

 Water .... 6 ounces. 



NO. III. STRONGEST RECIPE. 



Red nitrate of mercury . 1 ounce, 

 Nitrous acid . . .2 ounces, 

 Spirit of wine . . .4 ounces. 



The nitrated mercury should be first dissolved in the acid, 

 and then the spirit of wine should be added ; to facilitate 

 the decomposition of the nitrate, add a teaspoonful or two 

 of pure water, as frequently no action and decomposition 

 will take place without water being added. 



After these appliances have been repeated twice or thrice, 

 it will be found that the flesh assumes a more healthy 

 aspect ; the parts should then be healed by an application 

 of tincture of myrrh, or Friar's balsam. But should a 

 discharge continue to flow from the parts, they should be 

 carefully washed with a weak solution of soda, or Goulard^s 

 extract. The animals must be kept in a dry situation until 

 the feet are perfectly healed. 



The treatment pursued by that enterprising agricul- 

 turist, Sir George S. Mackenzie, is first to administer a dose 

 of Glauber's salts, from one to two ounces, according to the 

 size of the animal. Then the ulcer is laid open, and 

 cleaned and washed with a weak caustic ley of potash or 

 soda, and then filled up with scraped linen, steeped in 

 Goulard cerate. This dressing to be continued every even- 

 ing, until the granulations of the healing process become 

 apparent. If ulceration continues, then the part may be 

 again washed with caustic ley. When the hollow part 

 caused by ulceration is tolerably well filled up, a dress- 



