jS2 The FARRiERVi\r^ie; Guide, Ch.XLVIII. 



warm Tar once a Day, until the Scab falls ofF ; after which 

 ^ fmall quantity of Verdcgreafe may be mixed with Tar, 

 or any other Digeflive, to cicanfe the Ulcers, to prevent a 

 frefli Growth of proud Flefli, which will be very apt to 

 arife after thofe fiery Applications, unlefs the Horfe be other- 

 wife in good Order, What is further neceflary, after 

 cauftick Applications, may be feen in that Chapter where 

 we have treated of Burns and Gun-Jhot Wounds, 



Markham fays, the Farriers, his old Mailers, were wont to 

 take white Mercury, and after opening the Knots, they put 

 a fmall Quantity into each, which in a fhort Time made 

 them fall off ; but it ought to be very warily us*d, otherwife 

 it will caufe dangerous Swellings in the Limbs and Kernels 

 about the Throat, as in an Inftancel faw not long ago ; but 

 this Caution is hardly neceflary to the Country Farriers, who 

 feldom call for it by the Name of Corrofive Sublimate^ as \ 

 have taken notice feveral times, fo that the Jpothecaries give 

 them Mercurius duUis inftead of it, which altho' it does not 

 form any thing like an Efcar, yet as they pepper them very 

 foundly with it, it is not always unattended with Succefs. 



The following is from Solleyfell-, he calls it the Oifitment 

 f^f Naples y having had it communicated to him by a Neapo» 

 litan Groom, after he had feen many furprifing Cures per- 

 formed by it ; but altho* it has been us'd with Succefs in eve- 

 ry State of the Farcin, according to that Author, yet it is 

 more peculiarly adapted to deflroy Excrefcences, as it is 

 made up of Ingredients that are altogether cauftick, and 

 fomewhat ftronger than that which we have laft inferted. 



*' Take Realgar and Sublimate, of each two Ounces, 

 *' Arfenick and Euphorbium, of each an Ounce ; beat 

 «* them to fine Powder, and incorporate them without 

 f^ Heat with half a Pound of Oil of Bays. 



JCeep the Ointment in a glaz'd Pot, and when you have 

 Occafion to uie it^ open the Knots or Swellings with a Lan- 

 cet, and put into the Hole a little Cotton dipt in this Oint- 

 ment, without heating it in the leaft. The next day, if 

 you perceive that it is fallen av^^ay, you muft put in a little 

 Cotton with fome frefli Ointment 5 but if it fHck, one 

 Application will fuffice. 



Thefe may be made ftronger or weaker, or according as 

 you riiix them with a greater or lefler Quantity of Oint- 

 ment, and may be diverfify'd by changing one Ingredient 

 for another, provided you keep a fufficient Quantity of 

 Shoff that are caufticL The Realgar is a Compofitioa 



made 



