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The cure. Bleed. Rub the parts affefted 

 with fpirits well camphorated, and oil, or ox- 

 gall mixed, twice a day, keeping on, if poflible 

 a thick woolly bandage, well foaked in the 

 mixture. A mercurial purge. A week after, 

 the antimonial beer, to be continued three 

 weeks or longer, the horfe kept conilantly well 

 clothed, with walking exercife twice a day, the 

 weather permitting. Warm bath, with much 

 Trillion of the parts, afterwards fwimming in a 

 river occafionally. 



But the only cure to be depended upon, in 

 my opinion, is a month's run at fait marfhes in 

 the Spring, and being continued abroad in fome 

 (hady place till Autumn ; afterwards mercurial 

 phyfic, and the belt liable care. 



Embrocation from Bracken. Nerve oint- 

 ment, and foldiers ointment, two ounces ; cam- 

 phor, two drachms ; oil of turpentine, and oil 

 of Peter, each three drachms ; fpirit of fal am- 

 moniac, two drachms. Mix well and keep in 

 a pot flopped clofe with a bladder. Shave ofT 

 the hair, lather with foap, and when dry, anoint 

 twice a day. 



Turpentine DRINK, from the fame. Take 

 aetherial oil of turpentine froyii Apothecaries 

 Hall, half an ounce ; three yolks of ^gg^, three 

 ounces treacle, mix. Give this cold in half a 

 pint of white wine,, and repeat it every third day 



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