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iheui to;:erhev into an ointment, and fill the cracks well with 

 it. When the disorder is too hot to be healed by this oint- 

 ment, rub with a little ^^^gyptiacum ointment, but be care- 

 ful not to lay too much on, for it is a great drier. 



Rat-tails at first resemble the Grease, and are attended 

 with a hot, scorbutic humor at the beginning, and often by 

 neglect, destroy the roots of the hair, and then-therais no 

 complete cure for them ; but they may be relieved by rub- 

 bing with equal parts of strong mercurial ointment and 

 Flanders oil of bays. 



If a horse have got the Scurvy, or Scabs on his legs, 

 this ointment v»'ill mostly take them off; but if not, mix 

 well with hog's lard, one dram of sublimate, in fine pow- 

 der. These two last mixtures will cure most Scabs, and 

 mixed together, they will cure the Itch. 



WINDGALLS. 



These are mostly on the hind-legs, near the fetlock, but 

 I have known them above the fetlock, and on the arm. 

 Windgalls are not only eye-soreSj but lame many a horse. 

 Many methods are tried to disperse them without effect. 

 If you put your finger '^'" one side, and your thumb on the 

 other, and press with one of them, you will find the Wind- 

 gall to go quite through the leg. The reason that they are 

 mostly on the hind-legs is, because the horse stands lower 

 behind thaij before, and throws most weight on the hind- 

 legs. 



Cure. On the first appearance of a Wiudgail, bathe the 

 place well with w^arm vinegar and spirits of wine, and put 

 a pretty tight bandage round it. If this do not remove it, 

 lay on blistering ointment till the cure shall be completed. 

 But should this method also fail, which it seldom does, you 

 must lay the WindgaU open, and dress it as a common 

 wound. Before you use the knife, be careful to get the 

 horse's body into a proper cool state, by physic. 



Some people fire, to cure Windgalls, running tlie iron 

 on the skin, (what is called scoring,) but thereby do little 

 good, as that cannot destroy the bag of wind and matter. 

 It may draw the skin a little tighter, so that the Windgall 

 will not appear so large. 



