130 other remedies for spavin. 



Ointments of Antimony, Mercury, and Iodine. 



These are hardly to be named as remedies for spavin. I have, 

 it is true, now and then employed antimony ointment — composed 

 of the potassio-tartrate of antimony and lard — with some slight 

 advantage; but this has rarely proved lasting. As for mercurial 

 ointment, of itself it may be set down as all but inert and quite 

 useless, though, in combination with iodine, of late a good deal has 

 been said in its favour. My own experience is yet too limited to 

 enable me to say any thing decisive about the efficacy of such a 

 combination in spavin ; though, from all that I pretend to know 

 and have heard, I should say that absorption or removal of the 

 exostosis was the utmost we ought to expect from it, and that 

 therefore its employment promised no benefit save in periosteal 

 spavin attended with enlargement. 



