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Put. these into a mortar with about two ounces of honey, or as much 

 as will make them into balls, and they will carry oft' the offending hu- 

 mors, and free the blood from its noxious qualities. But, at the same 

 time that these internal remedies are taken, outward ones should not 

 be omitted. The legs should be bathed Avith warm verjuice, and, if 

 verv bad, a poultice of boiled turnips applied. If turnips cannot be 

 got," make a poultice of linseed meal and bran, with a little hog's lard 

 in to prevent it from growing hard. 



Sometimes horses are neglected when in the Grease till they have 

 wh e called grape-legs. These may be cured on their first ap- 

 peal mce, when they are in the bud, by laying on caustic, or cor- 

 rosive sublimate. When the swelling is abated, make the following 

 into a salve to dress the sores with. 



4 oz. of Honey. 2 oz. of White Lead, in powder. 



1 oz. Blue Stone Vitriol, in powder. 



Mix these well together, and lay them on the sores with tow to heal 

 them ; but, should they continue foul, and not frame to heal, mix four 

 ounces of green salve, and four ounces of iEgyptiacum ointment well 

 together, and lay it on in the above manner. The mixture will both 

 heal and dry up the sores. 



SCRATCHES. 



This disease is a forerunner of the Grease, and is a hot oozing 

 matter that breaks out like kins, with a nauseous smell. It is very 

 troublesome to a horse, causing his heels to look red and angry, and 

 to be very sore ; and sometimes it is so violent as to render a horse 

 lame, and unfit for use. 



If you do not bleed and physic as soon as you find a heat in a 

 horse's heels, you may soon have him laid up in the Grease. Some- 

 times in slight touches of this complaint the heels are not hotter than 

 usual. In that case, take a little flour of sulphur and spirits of wine, 

 mix them together into an ointment, and fill the cracks well with it. 

 When the disorder is too hot to be healed by this ointment, rub with 

 a little iEgyptiacum ointment, but be careful not to lay too much on, 

 for it is a great drier. 



Rat-tails at first resemble the Grease, and are attended with a hot 

 scorbutic humor at the beginning, and often by neglect destroy the 

 roots of the hair, and then there is no complete cure for them, but 

 they may be relieved by rubbing with equal parts of strong mercurial 

 ointment and Flanders oil of bays. 



If a horse have got the Scurvy, or Scabs on his legs, this ointment 

 will mostly take them off; but if not, mix well with hog's lard, one 

 dram of sublimate, in fine powder. These two last mixtures will cure 

 most Scabs, and mixed together they will cure the Itch. 



THE CROWN SCAB. 



This disorder is similar to the last. It breaks out on the cornet of 

 the foot, and is at first a hot running tumor, and afterwards a dry 



