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Treatment of Ulcers in glandered Horseg. 



brushes may occasionally be met with that will 

 suit this purpose much better than the former. 

 These may, in general, be procured at the drug- 

 gists, or stationers, in most large towns. Let a 

 sufficient quantity of this ointment be put into a 

 gallypot, and set near the fire, that it may liquefy ; 

 then take your brush, and dip it in the melted 

 ointment, and pass it gently up one of his nostrils, 

 and with a steady hand work it easily about. 

 This may be done once a day, or three times a 

 week. If the horse be in high condition, bleeding 

 and rowelling will be serviceable ; but if poor, the 

 contrary. Blistering will also be necessary in this 

 disease : first clip off the hair from the kernels, 

 which are under the throat, or, more properly 

 speaking, upon the glands betwixt the jaw-bones ; 

 then apply a strong blister on the swelled part, 

 which must be repeated every morning for a week ; 

 afterwards rub the kernels with a small quantity 

 of the above nitrated ointment once a day for a 

 month, or six weeks. 



