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mineral poifons, as mercury, arfenic, &c., have 

 been thought to kill them ; but the effed is un- 

 certain. 



The other kinds are alfo nearly as difficult of re- 

 moval ; but here mechanical means may be em- 

 ployed to more advantage, that is, the juices of the 

 inteftines may be rendered unhealthy by a courfe of 

 medicines, which loofening them from the furround- 

 ing mucous, they come away by purging the horfe. 

 Bitters, fimply as bitters, cannot deflroy worms ; 

 for thefe animals live in the moft acrid bitter we 

 ' know, the bile; but a courfe of aloes in fmail quan- 

 tities, as a dram a day, till purging is produced, has 

 proved ufeful. But I have experienced the grcateft 

 benefit from the 



Worm Powder [page 26], followed up by a 

 ftrong dole of mercurial phyfic. After this has fet, 

 another half dozen, and a fecond purge, fhould be 

 mvcn. This treatment does not often fail of relief, 

 particularly in the inteftinal worms. 



WOUNDS. 



The wounds of abfcefles, ulcers, &c., have been 

 confidered in their feveral places ; but by wounds 

 here is meant accidental laceration. A wide gaping 

 wound, made with a fliarp cutting inllrument, fliould 

 be clofed up with ftitches, one to every inch of flefli. 

 Th-cfe ftitches fliould take in a portion of flefli, as 



