ON DISEASES OF THE MOUTH. 5I5 



afide ; when preternaturally enlarged, cut them 

 clofe. 



Canker in the Mouth, or rather ulcers 

 with little white fpecks proceeding from gigs 

 and warts negle61ed ; the cautery moderately 

 heated is perhaps the heft remedy : I fhould 

 fuppofe the mixture, No. I. with the addition 

 offal ammoniac fharp enough, but if not, apply 

 feveral times a day, ^gyptiacum and tinfture 

 of myrrh, Iharpened with oil of vitriol : or, 

 fublimate water ; or, burnt allum, honey, and 

 * tin61ure of rofes. 



Hurts in the Tongue and Mouth, 

 from fharp or heavy bits. Touch feveral 

 times a day with No. I. to which tindure of 

 myrrh may be added, proceeding with the 

 (harper applications fhould they be neceffary. 

 Examine the jaw-bone, which is too often 

 injured likewife, carefully removing any fplin- 

 ters. I have in the Firfl Volume fpoken of 

 the cruelties inflifted in this way upon horfes, 

 by a race of indolent and cold hearted block- 

 heads, giving one dreadful example of jullly 

 merited punifhment , and what I have fmce 

 obferved, has ferved to convince me, that the 

 galling of the bits and trappmgs is frequently 

 the occafion of thofe many inflances we have 

 of horfes breaking away in fingle harnefs. 

 Very frequently the brydone is fo tight, that 

 the horfes jaws are drawn up as if with a 



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