56 THE OOMTLETE FARRIER, 



throwing out a joint-lee, of which there are three kinds. 

 One, and mostly the first, is thin and brown, something like 

 sweet wort ; the second is rather thicker and tougher, some- 

 thing like melted glue ; and the third, which is the worst, 

 is like muddy water and snort mixed together. This last has 

 deceived many people ; for when the wound has thrown out 

 this kind of lee, with little white slippery pieces, something 

 like matter, it has often been taken for such. When you 

 find any of these kinds of lee, get a bottle of Riga Balsam, 

 and syringe the wound every day. If Riga Balsam can not 

 be got, use Tincture of Benjamin. I have known fomenta- 

 tions be of great use, especially on the stifle joint. When a 

 wound is of a dead color, and the lips rise, and the dirty lee 

 flows profusely, the cure is to be despaired of. If proud 

 flesh arise when a wound is in a fair way for healing, take 



1 ounce of Basilicon. 



2 drams of Red Precipitate. 



Mix them well together, and lay them on the proud flesh. 

 This ointment is also very proper to dress a wound with that 

 appears dead, and does not discharge a proper matter. If 

 the proud flesh do not submit to the above, lay on a little 

 blue vitriol, in powder, or touch it with caustic or oil of 

 vitriol ; and should none of these make it give way, lay on 

 a little corrosive sublimate. The salves, tinctures and mix- 

 tures already laid down, are sufficient to cure any curable 

 wound. 



Hurts in the Feet. 



Horses are oftener hurt in the Feet than any where else, 

 and those hurts are often received from the blacksmith. 

 Every blacksmith should be a farrier, and every farrier a 

 blacksmith, for these businesses should go hand in hand. 

 Sometimes a horse is lamed by being shod into the quick. 

 The foot should always be carefully examined on the first 

 appearance of lameness. Sometimes a nail ^ith a flaw in it 

 will cause a great grievance, as one part will come out and 

 the other will go into the foot. Blacksmiths should never use 

 such nails except in a frost, when they can put them into the 

 old holes. Sometimes they leave stumps or pieces of nails 

 in the feet ; and sometimes when they drive a nail they turn 

 the point into the foot, and then draw it back and put in 

 another, taking no further thought about it, and when the 

 horse becomes lame they say he is gravelled. 



When a horse has got lamed in the foot, be careful to cut 

 it well out, and to damage the hoof as little as possible, and 



