278 THE IMPROVED ART OF FARRIERY. 



given daily as a drink, and a poultice of the herb, 

 mashed, is to be applied to the heels. 



When the discharge has ceased, it will sometimes be 

 found that coagulable lymph has been thrown out, by 

 which a hardened, thickened state of the limb remains. 

 Blisters may in this case be first tried to promote the 

 removal, assisted by a run at grass ; but should these, 

 as is sometimes the case, fail, the stimulus of firing 

 should be tried. It must Ukewise be remembered, that 

 as this complaint is very liable to recur again, from the 

 parts having taken on the habit, and from the secreting 

 surface being enlarged, so the recurrence is also best 

 prevented by firing, which lessens the surface and 

 afibrds strength by corrugation. 



When this is not employed, active pressure by linen 

 bandaging may be worthy of a trial. Nothing has 

 hitherto been said on internal remedies or on other 

 parts of the treatment as regards food or exercise : in 

 fact it will at once strike the judicious reader, that 

 exactly the same rules and the same cautions will apply 

 here as have been detailed when treating on the other 

 states and stages of this complaint. The constitutional 

 tendency to disease must be equally amended by the 

 internal remedies there laid down, that by these means 

 the extreme irritation of the affection may have given 

 way, when any of the accompanying formulae may be 

 tried, according to the appearance the eye assumes : — 



