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 adapted for the first dose given to most horses, and 

 likewise those that are lesser or weaker. There are 

 also 



Strong Mercurial Purging Balls, and 

 Mild Mercurial Purging Balls [see page 

 l5, medicine arrangement]. 



POLE EVIL. 



As this is only,to be regarded as a fistulous sore, so 

 its treatment, when it has broke, is the same as is de- 

 scribed under the article Fistula, 



But before it breaks, it must be treated as a com- 

 mon inflammation ; that is, by bleeding, keeping the 

 horse low, and constantly applying the saturnine or 

 goulard poultice [see Poultice, No. 2], and never 

 making use of hot, spirituous, or oily embrocations, 

 when it is hi this state, as that only advances ths 

 disease. The cooling treatment must not be conti- 

 nued after tlie tumour is felt to fluctuate, that is^ 

 after it feels soft : in this case the horse must be bet- 

 ter kept, and the common poultice [see Poultice, 

 No. 1] applied till it breaks, or is fit to open, which 

 should be done with a seton needle passed from the 

 top of tlie tumour to the side, so as to let out ail the 

 matter gradually. If the tumour is large, from the 

 top opening, another seton should be passed through 

 the other side, as near the bottom of the sac, or ab- 

 scess, as possible. After this, treat exactly as is de- 

 scribed under the lieadFiSTULA, having recourse to 

 the scalding mixture there described, if the case 

 proves obstinate. 



