59^ ON LAMENESS. 



catgut, after having well greafed it, in order to 

 crifp and draw it up, or to recover its elafticity. 

 Farriers cures for drains, even at this hour, are 

 generally oils and greafy applications ; but to 

 repeat the pra6lices of this clafs of men in former 

 times, upon poor horfes fuppofed to be lame in 

 their flioulders, or with real diflocations, would 

 be to add to the already ample catalogue of 

 ancient barbarities and follies. 



In turning lame horfes abroad for recovery, 

 efpecial care ought to be taken that they are 

 not confined in a narrow place with found 

 ones, which may drive and harrafs them about. 

 When the back fmews are confiderably let 

 down, and the frog will not touch the ground, 

 it is of great ufe to turn the liorfe off in a light 

 bar-fhoe, the bar refling upon the ground, and 

 fupporting the frog and the tendon. 



Various forms of embrocation for 

 STRAINS. Bed vinegar, one pint; camphorated 

 fpirit, four ounces ; white vitriol dilFolved in a 

 little .water, two drachms; mix. Or. Vinegar, 

 one pint ; camphorated fpirit, and fpirit of vi- 

 triol, two ounces each ; mix. 



Take diftilled vinegar, eight ounces ; diffolve 

 therein, one ounce Callile foap ; add half an 

 ounce fal ammoniac. Or. Sugar of lead, 

 alum, and white vitriol, one drachm each ; 

 powder and diffolve them in four ounces tinc- 

 ture 



