484 FALLING OF TIfE FUNDAMENT* 



ON FALLING OF THE FUNDAMENT. , , 



This may be occafioned by long continued 

 loofenefs or fcouring, and horfes of a lax and 

 wafhy conftitution are moft fubje6l to it. It is 

 produced by long journies, or hard labour with 

 infufficient nourifhment. The defe8: is fre- 

 quent with over-driven pigs, which I have often 

 attempted to cure^ with very ill fuccefs. Sol- 

 ley fel fays, it was fometimes brought on horfes, 

 in his time, by docking. 



In the Cure no time ought to be lofi:. If 

 the gut defcend to any great length, and be 

 much fwelled and inflamed, walh with warm 

 milk and aqua vegeto equal parts, and fufpend 

 it ; repeat the walhing, and when the inflam- 

 mation is abated, anoint with oil of rofes, carno- 

 niile, or dill, and a fmall quantity of Friar's 

 balfam, and gently with a warm linen cloth, 

 return the gut to its proper place* Bathe the 

 fundament frequently with the following mix- 

 ture : Red Port wine and camphorated fpirits, 

 a^ quarter of a pint each ; Goulard's extraft, 

 forty-drops. Acompofition of oak-bark, flour, 

 honey, and turpentine, applied frequently to 

 the fundament. Maflies of malt, or corn and 

 bran, and the animal kept very quiet, with the 

 mofl; gentle ufage. Should the gut not re- 

 main, or fall down in exercife, and fhrink up 

 again in the fl;abie, it is the fign of a fiflula, 



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