586 ON LAMENESS. 



and fix months grafs. As to palliatives within 

 doors — brandy ai^d linfeed oil, for a liniment. 

 Daily warm emollient fomentations, be they 

 only bran and water. A liniment of goofe 

 greafe, and fpirits doubly camphorated. Or, 

 Black foap, one pound ; old beer, one quart ; 

 neat's-foot oil, full half a pint ; feethe over the 

 fire, and when cool, add camphorated fpirits, 

 half a pint; ufe this warm. 



Pastern-joint wrung, or drained by 

 accident ; fomentation, anodyne poultice, em-!- 

 brocation, bandage long continued. Mark- 

 ham fays, in a WTench of this joint, there will 

 be fwelling and tendernefs upon the joints of 

 the fhoulder, or withers. In drains of the 

 knee-joints, whether in horfes or the human 

 fpecies, I have obferved the extenfor tendon 

 affefted, and pained at the bottom of the leg. 



Compression of the nut-bone, between 

 the coronary bone and the tendon, and drains 

 in the coffin-joint. The figns, fweUing 

 and great pain the coronet, heat in the foot, 

 diffhefs in the joint, and fetting the toe only 

 V upon the ground. Pare the fole, and bleed 

 the foot as in a founder : the fame after treat-r 

 ment as above. It ought by no means to be 

 forgotten, that drains in thefe lower joints 

 neglecled become perfeftly incurable ; didoca- 

 tion, anchylofis, or immobility of the joint taking 

 place. Drawing the fole (of which I have 



fpoken 



