1-^ FRENCH METHOD OF CLEANING SORES. 



ulcers, by rolling up pledgets of linen cloth, the edges whereof have been 

 Bcmped out thin, so that when introduced dry to the bottom of each sinus or 

 pipe, and being twisted round, it brings forth the offensive matter and any 

 residue of blood which may have got into them during the operation. They 

 also employ gentian root to keep down the swelling or thickening of the lips 

 of the sore. The healing is not to be suffered to go on too fast, nor until all 

 the offensive matter has been expulsed, and a more healthy discharge, whilst 

 it manifests the change that has taken place, and warrants your closing the 

 sore. Blue stone spread on any plaster of digestive ointment will effect this; 

 or take 



Ointment of nitrated quicksilver, 3 ounces, 

 Oil of turpenline, half an ounce. 



Mix, and apply as long as may be found proper to keep the orifice from closing, 

 to which it will be ever too much disposed. 



Something was formerly said about scraping the bone when the long con- 

 tinuance of the disorder, its virulence, or the bad state of the horse's general 

 nealth, hath been such as to affect its surface ; but this part of the operation 

 IS rather showy than useful, as the rottenness so occasioned will come away 

 as the discharge is kept up, there being a constant disposition throughout the 

 whole system to throw off" all such offensive matters. 



SADDLE GALLS; viz. WARBLES, SITFASTS. 



The first of these partake of the nature of the disorder just above treated of, 

 viz. fistula, and are caused by the same means, bruise of the saddle ; but being 

 situated farther back, less scope is allowed for the spreading of the original tu- 

 mour. Consequently, the smallness of the aflfliction renders it much less for- 

 midable, though, if suffered to suppurate, they become most troublesome sores. 

 The means to be adopted for the cure of warbles are similar to those recom- 

 mended for other tumours, viz. at first try to prevent the accumulation of mat- 

 ter by repellants, such as the embrocation prescribed at page 1 16, the domestic 

 remedies in the next page, as verjuice, made hot and applied by means of 

 cloths soaked therein, and repeatedly changed. Or apply, in the same man 

 ner, the following 



Cold Lotion. 



White vinegar, )f j^ 3 

 Spirits of wine, \ 

 Super-acetate ot lead, 2 ounces, 

 Water, 6 ounces. Mix. 



Should not these succeed, change your treatment, adopt the direct contrary 

 mode, and bring the tumour forward to suppuration by means of poultices, 

 &c. as before recommended ; and finally, when ripe, open the tumour with a 

 lancet, promote the escape of the offensive master, and then proceed to healing 

 the sore, as in the former case of poll-evil and fistula in the withers. 



Sitfast is an indurated tumour, one that has neither matter nor motion m it, 

 and may arise from either of two causes. The first is simply a gall or bruise, 

 which has produced no inflammation, and consequently no matter has been 

 engendered ; the second comes of an ill-cured warble, that has closed, leaving 

 a hard insensible swelling behind. Blistering is the favourite remedy with 

 inost farriers, though fomentations and poultices will frequently achieve as 



