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Red precipitate. An ointment may be made 

 with any of thofe, mixed with honey and ver- 

 digreafe. The common method ofdreffing, is 

 to extirpate the fungous flefh with a knife, 

 and apply pledgets of tow dipped in the oint- 

 ment, wedged as tight as poflible. This fre- 

 quent drefhng at firft is abfolutely neceflary, 

 as the great moifture of the canker drov/ns 

 and weakens the force of the molt powerful 

 oils. When the fungus is pretty well con- 

 quered, and does not rife upon the dreffings, 

 once in two days will fuffice. Strew precipi- 

 tate and burnt allum upon the new growth of 

 flefh, until the fole begin to grow. Aloetic or 

 mercurial phyfic. Alteratives with guiacura. 

 Salt marfhes. 



Scratches, rat-tails, crown-scab, 

 WARTS, mules. Thefe are generally conco- 

 mitants, or different appearances of the greafe, 

 and confequenily demand the fame methods of 

 prevention and cure. Scratches or Crepanches, 

 are long fcabby chaps, or clefts, either dry, or 

 with a fmall feiid difcharge, fituated upon the 

 hinder legs, between the fedock and the hock. 

 Rat-tails, fo d' nominated from their appear- 

 ance, are excrefcences of the hair and integu- 

 ment, upon the paffern and fhank, either moifl 

 or dry; the crown-fcab is a defluxion of the 

 greafe upon the coronary ring. Warts and 

 mules breed upon the heels ; the latter fo 



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