ULCERS. 197 



Method of curing* External Uicers. 



p. 14), and the alterative balls (No. 42, p. 67), 

 or (No. 86. p. 128), and (No. 87, p. 135), in the 

 manner there mentioned. . By strict attention 

 to these rules, and a proper knowledge of the 

 constitution, hahit of body, and his disease, the 

 practhioner will be enabled to administer them to 

 great advantage. In some cases of long standing; 

 where the blood has become corrupted, and symp- 

 toms of the farcy appear, it will be necessary first 

 to give the horse the mercurial physic (No. 5, 

 p. eSj, and work it off with (No. 1^, p. II ), les- 

 sened in quantity as there directed, and repeated 

 at proper intervais. 



External ulcers are a solution continually ooz- 

 ing from a soft part; for when it affects the harder 

 parts it is called a caries. Ulcers, or wounds 

 so situated, are very often troublesome to treat. 

 The method of cure is, first to remove the caries, 

 by cutting it clean out with a knife, or otherwise 

 by eating it out with caustics : in the former case 

 the bleeding may be stopped by touching the part 



