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A good autliority recommends tlie following practice : — '• After 

 cutting away the ragged horn quite smooth,"" he says, "into the cleft 

 of the frog may then be drawn a little tow previously dipped in a 

 mixture of tar and salt, or carbolic acid and glycerine, in the pro- 

 portion of one part of the acid to eight of glycerine, and these 

 dressings should be repeated two or three times a week, and cer- 

 tainly after every journey in wet weather. When the disease has 

 existed for some time, and implicates the whole of the frog, which 

 becomes ragged and literally rotten, any fungoid masses which may 

 appear must be touched freely with caustic. Nitric acid will be 

 very useful for the purpose, and a dressing of tar, mixed with an 

 eighth part of sulphate of copper, should be afterwards spread over 

 the part, the foot properly stopped, and a leather sole used as long 

 as the parts require such a protection." 



TONIC BALL. 



Take sulphate of iron, 4oz. ; ginger, 2oz. ; common mass, lOoz. ; 

 beat together and form into balls ; each to contain about eight 

 drachms of the above compound. Or the following for colts : Give 

 twice daily, in some corn, a powder consisting of one drachm of sul- 

 phate of iron and the same quantity of powdered gentian. 



TUMOUR. 



Get a piece of sheet lead, the same size as the tumour (taking 

 care to have the' edges perfectly smooth), and bind it on the part 

 with a linen bandage well saturated with cold water, and renewed as 

 it becomes dry. 



WARBLE. 



Pass a seton through the warble and foment daily with hot 

 water. 



WARTS. 



Make an ointment composed of one part of arsenious acid in fine 

 powder with four parts of lard, to be applied over and just around 

 the base of each excrescence. 



Pick off the hard, rough surface till the wart bleeds, then rub in 

 ' some yellow orpiment, or, if in a part where the loss of a little extra 

 skin is of no importance, a little corrosive sublimate in powder. 

 Either will destroy the wart, but the latter is the most certainly 

 effective in one apphcation, though its effect are apt to extend 

 beyond the wart. 



The yellow orpiment should be made into a thick paste with 



