ON LAMENESS, ^9! 



cooling and reflringent remedies. St. Bel 

 alFerts, that fuch a rupture is never perfcftly 

 cured without drawing the fole : We do not 

 find that to be exaftly the cafe in England, 

 and 1 fhould conceive the tendernefs of a new 

 fole to be the worfe alternative. Would not 

 Ofmer's method of an incifion under the part 

 affefted, be particularly ufeful in this cafe.^* 

 The old farriers dire6led to divide the finew 

 with the fhears, when ruptured, but not tho- 

 roughly, which produces convuliions ; after, a 

 charge of turpentine, Burgundy pitch, and 

 Sanguis Draconis, applied hot. 



The fra6lur& of the leg or thigh-bone, in 

 cattle, was held by no means incurable, or even 

 very difficult of cure, by Datagliacozzo, Ruini, 

 and the old veterinary anatomifts, as SolUyfel 

 afTures us ; far lefs ought it to be fo^ in the pre- 

 fent times. The cure is performed in the 

 common mode of fplent and bandage, and the 

 ufual dreffing ; the horfe or beaft being left in a 

 large outhoufe, or dry field, where he will 

 make a good (hift with three legs. This is 

 probably full as well as flinging with canvas 

 and ropes, dire6lions, and a plate of which, 

 may be feen in the lad edition of Bartlet's 

 Pharmacopeia, 



The only pra6licable method of reducing 

 diflocations in the joints of cattle, is to caft 

 the animal upon his back on a foft bed, and 



draw 



