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so much to a kind healing, as the 

 matter's having a free discharge, 

 and the opening being big enough 

 to dress to the bottom. 



'• Pledgets of tow spread with 

 black or yellow basilicon (or the 

 wound ointment) and dipped in the 

 same, melted down with a fifth part 

 ©f oil of turpentine, should be ap- 

 plied to the bottom of the sore, and 

 filled up lightly with the same with- 

 out warmJiig. It may be thus 

 dressed once or twice a day, if the 

 discharge is great, till a proper di- 

 gestion is procured, when it should 

 be changed for pledgets spread with 

 the red precipitate ointment, ap- 

 plied in the same maruier. 



"Should the sore not digest kind- 

 ly, but run a thin water and look 

 pale, foment as olten as you dress 

 with the above fomentation; and 

 apply over your diessing the strong 

 beer poultice, and continue this 

 method till the matter grows thick, 

 and the sore florid. 



"The following ointments will 

 generally answer 3 our expectations 

 in ail < onmion cases, and may be 

 prepared without, as well as with 

 the verdigrise. 



Take Venice turpentine and bees 

 wax ; oil of olives one pound and 

 a half : yellow rosin twelve 

 ounces ; when melted together, 

 two or three ounces of verdigris 

 finel\ powdered may be stirred 

 in, and kept so till cold, to pre- 

 vent its subsiding. 

 Take of yellow basilicon, or the 

 above ointment without verdi- 

 gris, four ounces ; and red pre- 

 cipitate finely powdered half an 

 ounce ; mix them together cold, 

 with a knife or spatula. 



"This last, applied early, will 

 prevent a fungus, or proud flesh, 

 from shooting out ; for if you dress 

 too long with the above digestive, 

 the fungus will rise fast and give 

 some trouble to suppress it; when 

 it will be necessary to wash the 

 sore as often as you dress, with a 

 solution of blue vitriol in water, or 

 to sprinkle it with burnt alum and 

 precipitate. If these should not be 

 powerful enough, touch with a 

 caustic, or wash with the subli- 

 mate water, made by dissolving 

 half an ounce of corrosive sublime 

 in a pint of water. 



" But this trouble may in great 

 measure be prevented, if the sore 

 is on a part where bandage can be 

 applied with compresses of linen 

 cloth ; for even when these ex- 

 crescences regerminatc, as it were, 

 under the knife, and spring up in 

 spite of the caustics above men- 

 tioned, they are to be subdued by 

 moderate compression made on the 

 sprouting fibres by these means." 

 See more on this subject in Bar- 

 tlel''s Farriery, page 236. 



TURF, a clod filled with grass 

 roots, taken from the surface of the 

 ground. 



That which is used as fuel in 

 some countries, is properly the 

 sward of a wet and boggy soil, and 

 consists of a sulphureous earth, 

 and the roots of aquatic vegetables. 



In Flanders, they pare their turf 

 from the surface of the earth, and 

 cut it in the form of bricks. 



The Du'ch take their turf from 

 the bottom of the canals which di- 

 vide their lands ; by means of which 

 they keep their dikes clear and 

 navigable. 



