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berry, white oak, nutgalls, gum catechu. Bandages moistened 

 with equal parts of vinegar and water form a good evaporating, 

 cooling lotion, when pain and inflammation are evident; yet, 

 after all, voluntary exercise, such as the animal will take while 

 procuring food in the pasture, will generally have a better effect 

 on a tumefied limb than all the local applications we can make. 



The local treatment of farcy buds is a matter of importance ; 

 for the discharge from them is sometimes so corrosive, irri- 

 tating, that it destroys the surrounding skin and subcellular 

 parts. White and some other writers recommend the most de- 

 structive poisons as topical applications, such as corrosive sub- 

 limate, muriatic acid, lunar caustic, red precipitate — in effect, 

 no doubt, setting up a worse disease than the one already 

 present. In such articles we have no faith : on the contrary, 

 we consider them first-rate poisons, capable of altering, and in a 

 great majority of cases destroying, one or more of the functions 

 necessary to the support of life. The following will form the 

 best local application we know of: — 



Pyroligneous acid, 1 pint, 



Tincture of bloodroot, 1 gill, 



Linseed oil, ^ gill. 



Mix, and wet the farcy buds with it morning and evening. 



WET PACKING. 



The method of local treatment, after the fashion of hydropa- 

 thy, is thus described by Surgeon Haycock : — 



" In the first place, procure the following articles, of the best 

 quality of their kind ; namely, two pieces of strong, coarse linen, 

 or harding wrappers, one piece of which must be seven yards in 

 length, the other three yards in length, and both of them four 

 feet in width; also, four linen bandages of the usual width, and 

 each of them six yards in length; or, what would be better, 

 eight linen bandages, each bandage three yards in length ; also, 

 two pieces of coarse woollen cloth, very firm, but soft and per- 

 fectly pliable in its nature, of the same length and width as the 

 two pieces of harding wrapper ; also, eight woollen bandages, of 

 the same length as the linen ones ; also, three or four large wool- 



