Ch. LXXXIV. Of Sores on the Legs. 24.5 



Sublimate in fine Powder ; as foon as they are become 

 clean, Quickfilver and Turpentine will perfedt the Cure. 

 It will always be proper to keep a Cloth over your Dref- 

 fmg, ty'd on with a Roller, forming a Crofs on the Infide 

 of the Paftern, that you may make your Turns above and 

 below the Joint ; by which Means its Adtlon needs not in 

 the leaft be hinder'd. 



Care (hould alfo be taken to difTipate the Swelling, ac- 

 cording to the Method laid down in the preceeding Chap- 

 ter ; neither ought Internals to be omitted, if his Conftitu- 

 tution be faulty, which may be eafily known by the Difpo- 

 iition of the Sores. 



CHAP. LXXXIV. 



Of the Tains and watery Sores on the Legs 

 and Tafterns. 



^HESE are caufed by a ferous Matter ouzing thro* the 

 '*' Pores, which is indu'd with fuch a Sharpnefs, that it 

 makes the Hair fall off from feveral Parts of the Legs and 

 Pafterns ; fometimes it loofens the Coronet from the Hoof; 

 and fometimes the Fiefli appears as if it was disjoined from 

 the Bones and Sinews ; where the Matter runs, it fo hardens 

 the Skin, that it is apt to break out into Cracks and Refts, 

 which difcharge abundance of ftinking Matter, as in the 

 above-mentioned Cafe. 



The Cure confifts chiefly in Internals, and in thofe things 

 that are proper to redtify the Blood, as Decodlions of Box- 

 wood, Guaiacum, and Sailafras, ^c. or the faid Woods may 

 be rafp'd and mix'd with his Oats, and fometimes among 

 dry Bran. All the Medicines prefcrib'd in the Farcin may 

 be made ufe of in this Cafe : But if the Horfe be inclinable 

 to a Dropfy, which may be known by the yielding of the 

 Swelling, and like wife as the Fore- legs will alfo be affedted, 

 and by the other Signs peculiar to that Diftemper, he muft 

 then be treated accordingly ; mean while the following 

 Applications may be made outwardly. 



" Take Honey, Turpentine, and Hogs-greafe, of each a 

 *' like Quantity : Melt them over a gentle Fire in a glaz'd 

 ^' Pipkin, and add a fufficient Quantity of Wheat-flour to 

 *' make it into a Poultice." Or this : 



" Take Fenugreek Meal, Bean Flour, Linfeed Meal, 



" and Muftard-feed pounded, of each a like Quantity. Boll 



*' them over a gentle Fire, with a fufficient Quantity of 



A a 3 . " Oint- 



