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not. Bathe with the liquor, and charge with 

 the hay as hot as can be borne. Renew. A 

 Sit-fast mafl: be exfeded with the knife, or 

 extra61ed with pincers ; in the latter cafe, 

 place a whifp of hay, and upon it a board, as a 

 fulcrum, or reft for the pincers. As to Chafing 

 with Collar or Harness, the moft mifchief 

 happens from wet, or, the harnefs being rough 

 dry ; prevention, or inftant remedy. Salt and 

 water. , Vinegar. Spirits to the raw places. 

 Leathern flaps are very ufeful to prevent chaf- 

 ing by the (hafts. Harnefs fliould be guarded 

 with fome foft body, where it ufes to chafe. 

 Prevention is the art in all fimilar cafes. 



The a6iual cautery, that prime inftrument in 

 the earlieft veterinary pra6lice, has been much 

 ufed of late, in the above cafe, and in pun61ured 

 wounds on the legs and joints. In certain chro- 

 nic cafes, and indurated tumours, the divifionof 

 parts, and as a ftyptic, the ufe of the cautery is 

 of the higheft confequence ; but there are folid 

 objeclions to its general introdu61ion, as amongft 

 the Arabians, who applying it to frefh wounds, 

 make flow cures, and leave needlefs fears. In 

 Ofmer's words, the cautery often roufes a fleep- 

 ing lion. The difadvantages of it, in certain 

 horfe cafes, are lofs of fubftance and hair, and 

 fometiraes the increafe of inflammation, to be, 

 in the ultimate, reduced by fomentation and 

 poultice, which, in all probability, would of 



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