^b THE IMPROVED ART OF FARRIERY. 



WARTS, OR WENS. 



The.^e are tumours found occasionally on different 

 parts of the body. They seldom give any pain, and 

 are very slow in growth ; but are no more ornamental 

 to the horse, than to the hands of a human being ; 

 cases of their producing lameness are very rare, and 

 their birth is generally spontaneous. Many methods 

 are resorted to in order to get rid of them. Occa- 

 sionally they are cut off, and the root touched with 

 caustic ; at other times w^hen cut, they are seared with 

 a 1-ed-hot iron ; and, indeed, unless some steps are 

 taken, they spring up again. Where the knife cannot 

 be used, the following ointment will serve to kill them — 

 Sal Ammoniac - - - 1 drachm, 

 Powdered Savin - - - 4 drachms, 

 Hog's Lard - - - . 5 drachms, 

 this must be applied every day. Gibson, speaking on 

 the subject, says, — 



" I was once concerned in the case of a very fine 

 horse that had a large wen on the lower part of his 

 neck, near the windpipe, which was cut off with a 

 sharp instrument. It grew from a small beginning, 

 not bigger than a walnut, to the bulk of a middle 

 sized melon, without pain or inflammation ; but at last 

 it became troublesome, and affected the motion of the 

 shoulders. This substance was then cut off, and it 

 appeared to be no other than a mass of fungous flesh, 

 a little variegated in its colour, and probably proceed- 

 ing from a rupture of some very small twigs of the 

 jugular arteries, which being enlarged by a continual 

 afiiux of the blood, caused so great an effusion of blood 

 from the several orifices, that it was with difficulty 

 stopped by the application of cautery." 



