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improved upon the method of the old farriers, 

 in this cafe ; though thefe lad, according to 

 Markham, ufed fometimes to diffefl; and lay 

 bare the fpavin, which they then chipped ofF 

 with a fine chiffel, a quarter inch broad, and 

 a hammer, keeping clear of vein and finews : 

 then drefTed with verdigreafe and nerve oil ; 

 in three days waflied with vinegar ; plaifter of 

 pitch, rofin, and turpentine; healed in feven 

 days. 



The fpavin in Gibfon's cafe, was deeply feated 

 in the hock of a hunter. He firft applied as 

 llrong a cauftic as . he dared venture, for fear 

 of hurting the tendons and ligaments, but inef- 

 feftually ; when judging rightly that his hand 

 poflefled an eleftive power which the cauftics 

 had not, he determined on the cautery. The 

 irons were made in the (hape of a fleam, that 

 they might penetrate deep, but not pointed ; 

 rounded on the face, and thick towards the 

 back. Some Gnall blood vefTels were divided, 

 and a pretty large effufion of blood enfued, to 

 which a ftyptic was applied. The wound half 

 an inch deep, and an inch long, with two or 

 three fliort lines on each fide, was drcfied with 

 dry tow until the third day, that the hemorrhage 

 might be fully fl;opped. Several days a gleet 

 of vifcid water; great pain, inflammation, and 

 fwTlling of the hock. Fomentations — Firft 

 dreflings, turpentine on tow ; afterwards with 



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